It does increase the TCO for VMWare.
Griswold, Doug wrote:
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>
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