A cursory examination seems to indicate it will not increase our costs either.
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes How many SMBs run more than 24GB per proc now? I honestly can't see that many that would. I'm licensed for 6 proc's, meaning in my environment I could run a total of 144GB . I don't see this being a big deal for us in the SMB space. My hosts have less memory than the processor limit, as it is. Will this increase overtime? Likely. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Webster <carlwebs...@gmail.com> wrote: One analyst says for some large VMware shops with large VMs this could quadruple their VMware licensing costs. Another analyst says VMware is sending a clear message to SMBs, "You can't afford us". Like MBS, I am NOT a VMware person. This is just my $0.02US worth. Webster From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes Great way for vmware to drive customers to Hyper-V. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Subject: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes http://blogs.softchoice.com/advisor/2011/07/12/big-changes-in-licensing- model-for-vmware-vsphere-5-vmware/ Note how licensing is moving to be CPU based but limited by vRam. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin