VMWare is Back And It Looks Like the Old VMWare

http://jrodthoughts.com/2012/07/24/vmware-is-back-and-it-looks-like-the-old-vmware/

by jesusmrv • 14 years ago

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b03• 14 years ago

New VMware is probably more expensive than old vmware and it's expensive enough already. Every portrayed advantage of virtualisation is not cost effective when you have to pay their extortionate prices. Xen/KVM and HyperV have a serious advantage.

For ref, I currently have to babysit a large vsphere installation (44 hosts) and it's a money pit.

jesusmrv2• 14 years ago

You are right! I think democratizing virtualization and lowering prices has to be at the top of their priority list.

Karunamon• 14 years ago

Why would it be? Their customers are almost exclusively medium to large enterprises. They have no incentive to lower prices, nor to get smaller entities into the game.

rondon1• 14 years ago

It is worth the price if you need the features. If Running a few VMs on a server there is no reason to pay 6k for vSphere.

b03• 14 years ago

We run around 400 VMs across 44 (big scary) servers and I find that VMware only exists as a cop out for bad planning and bad architecture, albeit more cost effective than fixing it. It also shoots you periodically like 2Tb LUN size on our vSphere meaning we had to introduce mega-frigs to breach a 2Tb filesystem like NTFS links and sharding. 2Tb isn't much.

I think most enterprises are using as a big sticky plaster.

Miademora• 14 years ago

If Vmware would offer Softwareraid with esx(i) i will consider it for my customers

ebtalley• 14 years ago

consider biting the bullet and buying a 300 dollar adaptec card. It makes your life infinitely easier than trying to monkey with LSI/ soft raid.

wilhil• 14 years ago

Well... I just hope it gets cheaper and/or licensing becomes easier.

At work, among our infrastructure are just two servers that I really want to get FT working on... the foundation packs don't seem to cover FT, so, it is a jump up to two server licenses + 1 VCenter license at over 10k in total!

There is such a jump from their starter kits to the full thing if you just want a couple of features!

...Don't even get me started on their USD <> GBP exchange rate! - http://i.imgur.com/KWOHH.png

Looking in to Hyper-V right now...

VMWare is Back And It Looks Like the Old VMWare

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