T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit

<p>T-Mobile is asking a New York court to rule that Broadcom was contractually obligated to continue supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.</p> <p>In its complaint, T-Mobile said it has tens of thousands of virtual machines using VMware software across approximately 303,140 CPU cores. It also said that it was migrating off VMware but noted the <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/01/a-long-costly-road-ahead-for-customers-abandoning-broadcoms-vmware/">time-consuming and technical challenges</a> involved in migrating over 1,000 applications.</p> <p>It filed its lawsuit, which was first reported by <a href="https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/07/01/t-mobile-appears-to-be-quitting-vmware-and-fighting-a-very-familiar-battle-for-support-rights-on-the-way-out/5264750">The Register</a> today, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in August 2025 <a href="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/654741_2025_T_Mobile_USA_Inc_v_Broadcom_Inc_et_al_COMPLAINT_58.pdf">(PDF)</a>.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/07/t-mobile-moving-tens-of-thousands-of-virtual-machines-off-vmware-amid-lawsuit/">Read full article</a></p> <p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/07/t-mobile-moving-tens-of-thousands-of-virtual-machines-off-vmware-amid-lawsuit/#comments">Comments</a></p> Reference : https://ift.tt/JUcv6Dp