Topgolf migrated about 12,000 virtual machines off VMware to VergeIO’s VergeOS to avoid a projected 400% increase in VMware licensing under Broadcom, and reports more than $11.3 million in combined infrastructure savings so far. The company had used vSphere/ESXi and VxRail for years, but licensing and SKU changes made future planning untenable, so Topgolf moved its on-premises workloads for venues, offices, labs, and data centers; twenty venues still run VxRail but full exit is expected by mid-December.
The migration replaced roughly 650 VxRail hosts with about 400 Dell PowerEdge servers in six months, shifting from six-node VxRail clusters with ~35 TB to three-node VergeOS clusters with ~5 TB; Topgolf says comparative hardware spend fell 87% and software costs dropped 77%, and it secured a five-year enterprise license. VergeOS’s multi-tenant Virtual Data Center model simplified upgrades, enabled nested labs, and supported API-first automation (Terraform/Ansible). VergeOS teams helped tune Toptracer’s machine-learning ball-tracking (about 40 TB/day per 102-bay venue) to reduce latency. Post-migration friction included integrating third-party tools like Rubrik and LogicMonitor, leading Topgolf to use VergeIO snapshotting and Veeam for protection. VergeIO reports steady customer growth from former VMware shops facing renewals or hardware refreshes.
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