This was a popular blog post from 2016. Feel free to read it below; for updated information, visit VMware's pricing page.
VMware dropped some news this week regarding their product and licensing lineup. VMware announced the End-of-Life (EOL) of some familiar friends, slight additions to other products, and increasing and decreasing pricing. There are a lot of moving parts so sit tight and let me walk you through what’s going on.
First some VMware licensing goodbyes
Like rolling your pants and B.U.M. Equipment t-shirts, some things just go out of style, and the same holds true for vSphere Enterprise, vSphere Standard with Operations (vSOM) and vSphere Enterprise with Operations (vSOM.) VMware will no longer offer these three products starting June 30, 2016. So what are your options?
- Continue to purchase vSphere Enterprise, vSphere Standard with Operations (vSOM) and vSphere Enterprise with Operations (vSOM until June 30th. You can continue to renew your subscription and support until March 2020.
- Buy vSphere Enterprise Plus and vSOM Enterprise Plus instead. For existing vSphere Enterprise and vSOM Enterprise licenses, VMware is offering a 50% off upgrade promotion until June 25, 2016
- If you are standardized of vSOM Standard, you will now just purchase vSphere Standard and vRealize Operations Standard 25-Instance Pack
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vRealize Suite is introducing a new flavor; vRealize Suite Standard Edition. Like vRealize Suite Advanced and Enterprise, vRealize Standard edition will include Operations Advanced, Log Insight Analyst, and vRealize Business for Cloud. vRealize Advanced adds Automation Advanced and vRealize Enterprise adds Automation Enterprise and Apps Monitoring.
vRealize is moving from a 25-Instance model to a per CPU license and will include a Portable License Unit (PLU.) PLU includes 15 OSI’s (Operating System Instances) to be used in the cloud (i.e vCloud Air, Amazon etc. allowing you to switch from on-prem hosts and public and non-public clouds).
vCloud Suite is releasing version 7 and the new suite will simply be two products. The new vCloud Suite 7 will include vSphere Enterprise Plus (like it always has) and one of the corresponding vRealize Suites:
- vCloud Suite Standard: vSphere Enterprise Plus & vRealize Suite Standard
- vCloud Suite Advanced: vSphere Enterprise Plus & vRealize Suite Advanced
- vCloud Suite Enterprise: vSphere Enterprise Plus & vRealize Suite Enterprise
vCloud will continue to be licensed by the CPU and it will also come with 15 PLU instances.
vCloud Enterprise will no longer include Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Enterprise, as this can be purchased a la carte via a 25-VM pack.
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vCenter Standard Server and Log Insight are teaming up to form one product. Moving forward, vCenter Standard Server will include 25 instances of Log Insight for vCenter Server. There are no changes to vCenter Foundation Server, however, there will be a price increase of $1K for vCenter Standard. The new MSRP for vCenter Standard w/ Log Insight will be $5,995. Log Insight retailed for $5K, so the addition of it is actually a cost savings. Like Cognac, Cointreau and a touch of lemon, I hope the new vCenter Server leaves a good taste in your month.
Run Down on Price Changes
The pricing below is from 2016, for updated information, visit VMware's pricing page.
- vCenter Standard will be $5,995 up $1000 (however it includes Log Insight which was a $5K value)
- vSOM Enterprise Plus increasing +$150
- vRealize Advanced down -$500
- vRealize Enterprise down -$2,200
- vCloud Suite STD increasing +$500
- vCloud Suite ADV increasing +$500
- vCloud Suite ENT down -$2,000
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By Rob O'Shaughnessy, Director of Software Sales and Renewals
