Crossposted to IBMVM and LINUX-390... news is a bit old but... Interesting how they twisted what sounds like a way to generate more revenue into a we want to keep you from doing something really stupid like putting too many virtual machines on one box proposition.
VMware Shifts Pricing Strategy During the VMworld 2010 conference this week in San Francisco, virtualization software vendor VMware will implement a new pricing structure for its vCenter Server management suite that will be based on the number of virtual machines running on a virtualized server, not on the number of processors on the server. This shift in pricing policy, taking effect Sept. 1, is intended to better align the price of the software license to the value of virtualization technology to a customer. However, the change may cause disruption for some VMware customers who may have to pay more for VMware than they're used to. http://www.networkcomputing.com/virtualization/vmware-shifts-pricing-from-per-socket-to-per-virtual-machine.php?cid=NWC_report_sat_h <http://www.networkcomputing.com/virtualization/vmware-shifts-pricing-from-per-socket-to-per-virtual-machine.php?cid=NWC_report_sat_h>
