VMWare to Scrap vRAM Licensing Model

VMware Kills vRAM Licensing, Will Focus On vSphere Cloud Bundles
Starting in 5.1, which will be debuted at VMWorld, VMWare is apparently going to announce they are dropping the new vRAM licensing model and going back to the per-CPU licensing model.
Nice.
Starting in 5.1, which will be debuted at VMWorld, VMWare is apparently going to announce they are dropping the new vRAM licensing model and going back to the per-CPU licensing model.
Nice.
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It definitely would simplify their licensing model. I'm surprised to see them going away from it so quick though.
Financial benefits to virtualization tend to go out the window with the higher levels of vSphere licensing under the current model. VMware should charge for instances of the hypervisor and supporting it instead of trying to earn huge margins on hardware power, IMO. The latter method may provide a larger margin, but at the cost of driving everyone to purchase cheaper versions or switch to Hyper-V.
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Of course, I will work with whatever product the customer has, and it's probably going to be VMware for quite a while, but nothing is wrong with setting up a Hyper-V server on an unused blade is it?
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@SteveLord Only those of us who have experienced true, unadulterated licensing pain understand this. HA!
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Every time I have to do VMware license reconciliations I feel the same way.
That said, I am really glad to see the per-socket license model return.
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+1 on that. But then again, isn't that what the IT Directors and CIOs get paid to figure out?
lol nope. They get paid to tell someone underneath them to figure it out. And then show on a graph how much money they saved the company by reducing licensing costs