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VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update

As Citizen Smith would say ‘Power to the People!’

VMware has decided to double (x2) the vRam entitlements under its new licensing rules.

 

 

 

 

Does it go far enough?

http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/2011/08/vmware-vsphere-5-licensing-and-pricing-update.html

Coming soon VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi 5)?

Whats new?

ESXi 5 host / 512 virtual machines / 160 logical CPUs / 2TB of RAM
32 vCPUs / 1TB of RAM per VM
VMFS-5 64TB (Thin Provision Stun / Space Reclaim)
Image Builder (custom esxi builds)
Auto Deploy (pxe boot and image deployment)
vCenter Virtual Appliance (Linux based virtual center)
vSphere Storage Appliance (local disk presented as NFS storage)

Cloud Infrastructure

 

 

For more info please visit
http://www.vmware.com