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How to license Microsoft Windows 7 for VMware View deployments

Edwin Weijdema — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:23:00 +0000

I often get questions about how to license Microsoft Windows 7 in a VMware View VDI deployment, I will try to elaborate what is needed in general and for specific scenarios. By understanding how they apply to common VMware View scenarios you can calculate and try to get the most out of existing and new [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

vSphere Licensing and Options Overview

Edwin Weijdema — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:35:48 +0000

Last week we got a question concerning the licensing options around vSphere and how to choose the correct edition and options from all the flavors and options offered by VMware. So while answering the questions concerning the licensing I thought back to a nice overview picture we had available a few years back from VMware. [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

VMware vSphere 4.1 and View 4.5 launch news

Erik Scholten — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:09:33 +0000

Last Thursday we attended the VMware vSphere 4.1, vCenter 4.1 and View 4.5 launch event at Amerongen (NL). We already brought you all news regarding vSphere and vCenter 4.1 and View 4.5 but we heard some interesting thing we would like to share with you. VMware View 4.5 With VMware View 4.5 VMware has changed [...]

by Erik Scholten

How to: License Microsoft Windows Server in a VMware environment – Part 2

Edwin Weijdema — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:38:15 +0000

[This is the 2nd part in the sequel. You can find part 1 here.] We talked about licensing Windows Server on a VMware environment but that’s only one part of the licensing nightmare. You will also need client access licenses also called CALs. Client Access Licensing In addition of the Windows Server 2008 License you [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Trade in XenApp for VMware View

Alex Muetstege — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:00:50 +0000

As a reaction on the Citrix program to trade in your VMware View licenses for XenDesktop, VMware comes with a program to trade in your XenApp licenses for VMware View. The trade in program is quite simple: For the price of 3 years XenApp SA (€ 182,-) you will get View Premier and 3 years [...]

by Alex Muetstege

Oracle VM, things they do not tell

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:00:10 +0000

Last week a colleague, who sells applications running on an Oracle Database, had some questions regarding Oracle and running it in a Virtual Machine (VM) on top of a VMware infrastructure with a customer. 1) How to license Oracle in a virtual environment? I pointed him to an article about licensing the Oracle software in [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

VMware licensing management – a proposal for change

Anne Jan Elsinga — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:00:21 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I talked to a co-worker who is responsible for selling VMware licenses and other VMware related stuff. As a VMware partner it isn’t always easy to manage the licenses for customers nor selling or upgrading their licenses if they bought them from another partner in the past. A lot of [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Want to play truth or dare with the Oracle Sales force?

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:37:40 +0000

After some hard pushing and nudging with Oracle sales the last couple of months I almost became a Oracle licensing guru. Not what I had in mind and was aiming for to be honest. While completing some business cases about virtualization for several customers, Oracle products became a hot issue again. The Oracle Soap I [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Red Hat subscriptions on a VMware infrastructure

Edwin Weijdema — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:21:53 +0000

The world of licenses and subscription models is a complex whole, by adding a virtual component it even got more complex. Virtual machines aren’t bound to one physical server and can move freely across several physical servers or even in and out of a cloud. Fortunately more and more software vendors are changing their license [...]

by Edwin Weijdema