Hang tight. Very soon VMware will be broadening the SLES entitlements.

Eric

According to the same document, they are supposed to contact VMware sales. Sales unfortunately only seems able to copy/paste from the terms document or forward you to vi-hotline who does the same thing after a series of escalations. According to them, there are no SKUs for SLES licensing; only for SLES support.

I soft of wonder if the whole program wasn’t created so that VMware could convince a couple of large customers to move SAP to virtual machines: forget about the regular guy wanting to use it. I am pretty sure if we were more than a 28-CPU customer we’d be getting a bit different response.

So the question is — can you reuse a license or not?

Digging up an old post here I know — but is it correct that the SLES benefit does not apply to existing VMware customers with active SnS on enterprise products? We are being told the only way to receive the benefit is to buy new licensing; yet due to the ever-increasing capacity of current hardware, we are actually running vSphere on FEWER cpu’s than we have licensed. We are also being told there is not a way to buy SLES for VMware separately. What gives?

SLES for VMware might be a great product, but if no existing customers can use it, it seems pretty useless, don’t you think?

What are your frustrations I’d ask?

you can mail me at roeland at roeland.stoned-it.com if you wish.

Thanks for reading and commenting. At first I was going to point out that VMware has Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs) for SLES 11 SP1, but then I clicked over to your blog and learned that you were well aware of these repositories for VMware Tools.

http://www.vmware.com/download/packages.html

Sorry to hear that you had to endure some internal battles to switch back and forth between OSPs and vSphere-bundled Tools. Not sure what else to say at this point, but you should be assured that VMware supports SLES, and my view is that support will be continually optimized due to this new arrangement.