This pricing model only applies to a few of their add on products none of which are their virtualization core.
http://www.vmware.com/support/licensing/per-vm/index.html Doug Griswold On Sep 30, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > 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> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
