Comments on: VMware licensing management – a proposal for change

By: Arne Brucker

Arne Brucker — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:57:23 +0000

As a German VAR for VMWare I would like to thank you for your statement. Thinking of bigger organisations and the way how VMWare handles its licenses it is right now not usable. In my personal opinion they must change their way of handling licenses very fast, because they don’t have the ability themseves to handle it – f.e. Renewal Quotes (everytime a thriller).

By: Ronny Steiner

Ronny Steiner — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:58:37 +0000

You are absolutely right! I had similiar issues because all licenses were registered by a person who left the company. It took weeks until VMware had linked those licenses to my account. Another problem we had was that we bought our licenses through HP which made things a lot more complicated than it was. VMware sent us a few times excel sheets with licenses but they were mixed with licenses of the company in other countries. Horrible! I think your points for the licensing portal would make it a lot better and easier to manage.

btw: great article!

By: Mike Horwath

Mike Horwath — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:51:14 +0000

HEAR HEAR!

And I concur on the search/replace as well.

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