Comments on: New VMware licensing explained

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:28:00 +0000

That’s why VMware changed their licensing model, doubling the amount of vRAM, introducing a VM vRAM licensing limit and a 12 month vRAM average.

more info here: http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2011/08/how-vmware-is-listening-to-their-clientele-new-vram-limits/

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:26:00 +0000

VMware changed the licensing model after customer complaints, now you can keep purchasing 144GB, 2 socket blades with Enterprise Plus. Enterprise Plus now entitles you to 96GB vRAM, so 192GB for a 2 socket system.

More info here: http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2011/08/how-vmware-is-listening-to-their-clientele-new-vram-limits/

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:20:00 +0000

That not necessarily true. It all depends on the amount of hosts and virtual machines in your cluster and the memory configuration of those virtual machines.

Pricing only based on the amount of physical memory is not correct. It’s based on the average amount of virtual memory you have allocated to virtual machines over a 12 month period.

For more information on the changes in VMware’s licensing model check out:
http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2011/08/how-vmware-is-listening-to-their-clientele-new-vram-limits/

By: Maciel

Maciel — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:39:00 +0000

If I need to have 1Tb of vRAM in my cluster, it will cost me around us$400k in licensing???

Today we license a 1TB DL980 G7 with 8 Procs for less than U$33K.

By: Blang

Blang — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:45:00 +0000

I think this is going to make a pretty compelling reason to migrate to Hyper-V in the next year or two. Check out this blog http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=11328 - hard to argue with the numbers…and management is always going to like any savings we can show them.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:46:00 +0000

I personally think that if VMware makes the switch completely towards vRAM licensing that would help a bunch, because you are talking about paying for resources you use all the way. Could make a trade in for the current vSphere CPU based licenses for vRAM entitlements with specific numbers, where I think 64GB per Enterprise+ license, 32Gb per Enterprise, 16 GB per standard would seem fair. Feel better paying for additional vRAM along vs. vRAM along w/ processor that isn’t needed.

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By: Hugo Peeters

Hugo Peeters — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:46:00 +0000

Here’s a script to help you calculate license requirements for vSphere 5:
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