Value-Added OEM Program
Catalog row in Vendor License Programs · Cited
- Kind
- Partner
- Term
- Not printed as a separate program term in the SPD; follows the Transaction Document / subscription for those OEM-sold licenses.
- Aliases
- Value-Added OEM; VAO; Broadcom's Value-Added OEM Program
- Definition
- VCF SPD June 2026: “licenses obtained through a third party who resold those licenses under Broadcom's Value-Added OEM Program (for clarity, such licenses may only be used on infrastructure that the license was sold with”. Educational Broadcom VAO partners page (live 2026-08-31): Value-Added OEM (VAO) partners integrate their differentiated technologies and services with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) into a VAO branded, sold and supported co-engineered solution.
- Commercial rules
- Not eligible to Port. OEM-resold licenses “may only be used on infrastructure that the license was sold with”. Broadcom publishes no OEM pricing, pack sizes, or CPU-to-Core multiplier.
- Applies to
- VMware Cloud Foundation licenses obtained through a third party who resold those licenses under Broadcom's Value-Added OEM Program.
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