Since its founding in 1998, VMware by Broadcom has had a significant impact on the enterprise IT infrastructure landscape by taking server virtualization mainstream and making the technology synonymous with superior resource utilization efficiency, increased scalability, and greater operational efficiency. (Broadcom closed its acquisition of the erstwhile VMware in November 2023. In the interest of simplicity and clarity, we shall refer to both the vendor and its offering ecosystem as just VMware in the remainder of the document.