{"id":10929,"date":"2010-11-04T22:24:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T22:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10929"},"modified":"2010-11-04T22:24:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T22:24:20","slug":"vmware-pricing-not-helping-them-renew-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10929","title":{"rendered":"VMware Pricing Not Helping Them Renew Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you follow any Microsoft feeds related to virtualisation then you\u2019re bound to read this story<\/a> in the next couple of days.  It describes how many UK organisations are choosing to dump VMware in favour of XenServer or Hyper-V because of VMware\u2019s pricing.<\/p>\n

VMware are trying to say that the costs are the same \u2026 but they aren\u2019t.  Hyper-V is effectively free.  VMM and OpsMgr are additional costs but they are less than vSpehere and they give you a complete stack management system, rather than a virtualisation layer.  Buy the SCMS bundle and you get backup in the form of DPM and the other System Center products too!<\/p>\n

Timing is everything.  It\u2019s around 3 years since virtualisation really took off.  I\u2019m told that VMware\u2019s contracts are for 3 years.  That means that there\u2019s an opportunity to make that move \u2026. stick in a Hyper-V cluster with VMM, run V2V conversions, and pretty soon afterwards you\u2019ll have a fully operational cluster at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n

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If you follow any Microsoft feeds related to virtualisation then you\u2019re bound to read this story in the next couple of days.  It describes how many UK organisations are choosing to dump VMware in favour of XenServer or Hyper-V because of VMware\u2019s pricing. VMware are trying to say that the costs are the same \u2026 … Continue reading “VMware Pricing Not Helping Them Renew Contracts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,193,195,196,103],"class_list":["post-10929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-system-center","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmm","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t