VMware offers a free version of its hypervisor, but with limited functionality. Numerous add-ons sold by VMware can raise a customer’s bill significantly. VMware’s management software, known as vCenter Server, costs $1,500 for three hosts, or $5,000 for unlimited hosts. According to a vSphere pricing document, “VMware vSphere Advanced” costs $2,245 for every processor, allowing up to 12 cores and 256GB of memory. VMware has several different pricing schemes and the price each customer pays depends heavily on which version of the software they use and how many servers and workloads they have virtualized. “Is it five times the features? Most folks, looking at their wallet, would say ‘I don’t think it is.’” “Are you going to spend five times the cost ?” asks Burton Group analyst Chris Wolf. If there’s one major complaint customers and analysts have about VMware, it’s that prices are too high. Here is a list of five things VMware and its CEO - former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz - have to do to stay ahead of their biggest rival. VMware says Microsoft ‘shenanigans’ led to new VMworld restrictionsĢ010 will be a crucial year for both VMware and Microsoft in the virtualization race. But the industry’s biggest x86 virtualization vendor is facing a strong challenge from Microsoft, which is enticing IT executives with Hyper-V, an alternative that may not be quite as sophisticated as VMware but is less expensive. With 170,000 customers, including every member of the Fortune 100, you might think VMware’s toughest task is stocking enough paper to print up new customer contracts.
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