Child of Wonder
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What irks me is that although many customers may be able to upgrade to vSphere 5 without needing more licenses, most of them are stuck only being able to provision so much vRAM without buying more licenses where now they can provision to their heart's content.
Their initial cost to move to vSphere 5 may be nothing but they'll pay more down the road guaranteed (unless they never provision more VMs).
On top of that, when it comes to "right sizing" VMs, what about VMware's appliances? vShield, the new Linux vCenter, etc. all come in pre-packaged virtual appliances ready to go. It's in VMware's best interests for those appliances to come configured with more RAM than they actually need which will cause the customer to need more licenses.
Their initial cost to move to vSphere 5 may be nothing but they'll pay more down the road guaranteed (unless they never provision more VMs).
On top of that, when it comes to "right sizing" VMs, what about VMware's appliances? vShield, the new Linux vCenter, etc. all come in pre-packaged virtual appliances ready to go. It's in VMware's best interests for those appliances to come configured with more RAM than they actually need which will cause the customer to need more licenses.