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A new vSphere 5 licensing: way to go VMware!

Luca Dell'Oca, August 4, 2011August 4, 2011

After weeks of discussions, blog articles by almost everyone (I also talked about it here), VMware has announced a change in vSphere 5 licensing.

Here are the details:

vSphere edition Previous vRAM entitlement New vRAM entitlement
vSphere Enterprise+ 48 GB 96 GB
vSphere Enterprise 32 GB 64 GB
vSphere Standard 24 GB 32 GB
vSphere Essentials+ 24 GB 32 GB
vSphere Essentials 24 GB 32 GB

Also, every VM (even the famous 1 Tb monster VM) will be counted for its first 96 Gb of Ram.

Last, vRAM will be calculated in a 12-month average of consumed vRAM rather than tracking the high water mark of vRAM. This will be great for test and QA environments where we spin up and destroy many VMs.

 

Great job VMware!!!

It’s not by everyone beeing the absolute leader, and anyway give credit to costumers’ feedback, and most of all change position if needed. We’ve seen in the past successful companies loosing their customers because of wrong commercial strategies, more than technical issues.

Seems this is not that moment for VMware, and I’m happy about it.

 

 

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