{"id":11913,"date":"2011-11-30T09:48:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T09:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11913"},"modified":"2011-11-30T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T09:48:48","slug":"vmware-cant-see-they-got-it-wrong-with-vtax-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11913","title":{"rendered":"VMware Can\u2019t See They Got It Wrong With vTax Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll keep this one short because the facts speak for themselves.&#160; Earlier this year, VMware announced (and then <em>slightly<\/em> backtracked) their new v5 licensing model.&#160; VMware introduced a limit on how much RAM each vSphere license would cover.<\/p>\n<p>The impact has been huge.&#160; Locally, I\u2019ve seen hardcore VMware partners (the people who drove demand for vSphere) start to sell Hyper-V.&#160; It seems like free with unlimited feature usage beats vTax with limited license features\/capacity every time.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I read this quote on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com.au\/News\/281699,vmware-to-jump-on-social-media-bandwagon.aspx\">CRN<\/a> (VMware to jump on social media bandwagon):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 if you\u2019re going to move to the cloud the license model has to be cloud-based and not physical-based.\u201d Doug Smith, Global Vice President for Sales, VMware <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh!&#160; So the license shouldn\u2019t be physical based.&#160; How does that match up with the new RAM limited licensing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll keep this one short because the facts speak for themselves.&#160; Earlier this year, VMware announced (and then slightly backtracked) their new v5 licensing model.&#160; VMware introduced a limit on how much RAM each vSphere license would cover. The impact has been huge.&#160; Locally, I\u2019ve seen hardcore VMware partners (the people who drove demand for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11913\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VMware Can\u2019t See They Got It Wrong With vTax Increases&#8221;<\/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":[181,195,103],"class_list":["post-11913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}