HPE will let VMware users get a free year's license via its own tools

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  • HPE confirms plans to make its VM subscription free for the first year
  • $1 Zerto migration package supports for those moving from VMware and others
  • The company also wants to unify its partner program to have them all in one place

In a bid to attract VMware customers who might be dissatisfied with services or prices following the Broadcom acquisition, HPE has launched an aggressive campaign to give users affordable access to both platforms for a year to aid migration.

Under the initiative, customers can get a year's free HPE Morpheus VM Essentials license so that they're not paying for two subscriptions during the migration.

Prospective customers will also get a $1 license for the company's migration software, HPE Zerto, during the migration period.

HPE really wants to migrate you away from VMware

The scheme was announced at HPE Discovery 2026 in Las Vegas, where the company revealed one of...

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