#VMWARE VCENTER PRICE PLUS#

In vSphere 4.1, a customer that configured all the RAM on a 128-GB, two-socket server only needed two licenses.

#VMWARE VCENTER PRICE PLUS#

Customers can pool the allotment, called vRAM, across their entire data center, and VMware isn't imposing any size limits on the pooling.Ĭustomers with vSphere 5 Essentials, Essentials Plus and Standard will receive 24 GB of vRAM per CPU license, each of which costs $995, while vSphere 5 Enterprise will receive 32 GB ($2,875 per license) and Enterprise Plus will receive 48 GB ($3,495 per license). But in vSphere 5, VMware is pegging licensing cost to the amount of physical memory that customers allocate to virtual machines on the host. In vSphere 4 and vSphere 4.1, VMware uses a per-CPU licensing model that's based on the number of server cores.

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VMware customers are venting their spleen over the licensing changes coming in vSphere 5, which in some cases will amount to a significant price hike.Įvidence of customers' frustration can be found on Twitter, where the #Vtax hashtag has sprung up and attracted a steady stream of vitriolic - and sometimes colorful - commentary.

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