Anyone ever had a VMware audit? Let's just say, Deloitte - the absolute shit show they contract to do the audits are dumber than a box of rocks. I know a comp

Anyone ever had a VMware audit? Let's just say, Deloitte - the absolute shit show they contract to do the audits are dumber than a box of rocks. I know a company that had to pay ~600k because their contractor (Deloitte) flagged several environments as "production" even though they were provided with all the data proving otherwise. By the time VMware laid down the hammer it was apparently "too late" to argue as it should've happened "a month ago". Neither VMware or their contractor could apparently do anything about it. The 600k was apparently worth it to the business to just take it in the nuts to maintain partnership/status/whatever. Straight extortion / scammy. There was even one environment which consumed about 70k of the 600k fine that straight up was licensed properly with proof of all purchasing - but their shitty vb scans were mixed up with another environment (in the same overall biz) and falsely marked as not compliant. I get it, I'm sure NFR licensing is being used rampant and improperly by all-sorts of business and there were certainly cases here and there with this org, but nothing even remotely close to 600k That whole process was worse than the "v dash trash" you would have to put up with ok a m$ audit.