Comments on: Price Commitment for Windows Server Workloads

By: David Lee

David Lee — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:36:57 +0000

What’s a GAINT Hyper V server?

By: JD

JD — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:23:22 +0000

I enjoy the technical information from your web site, but seriously, your constant bickering on Microsoft the competition is getting really tiring and old. I prefer VMWare as my solution, but all this non-sense from you in annoying. Stop with it already.

By: tony roth

tony roth — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:17:28 +0000

have you actually purchased the product, I have and didn’t notice any price changes for us.

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:19:02 +0000

Tony,

That’s incorrect. Previously, SQL Enterprise licenses entitled customers to unlimited VMs on a host. After the introduction of Datacenter, Enterprise was chopped down to 4 VMs. On top of that, prices were increased for Enterprise and Standard.

To put it another way, Microsoft took features away and raised prices. Which they have every right to do.

For the vast majority of customers, pricing for vSphere 5 will not increase, and new features such as Storage DRS have been added.

Eric

By: tony roth

tony roth — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:09:10 +0000

your sql example is no where near an apples to apples comparison ms did not take features away for the same price which vmware seems to be doing. they just added a new version with new features for a higher price.

By: Ed Bontempo

Ed Bontempo — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:22:29 +0000

But this is great for vSphere customers. We switched to Datacenter licensing for Windows guests some time ago, and even at our current ESX 4.1 consolidation levels (which are well under the initial vSphere 5 “vTax” numbers, let alone the current ones) we’re seeing significant licensing cost savings.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:26:54 +0000

Did you really write this “This is great for vSphere customers” ?

Great how? By building GIANT vSphere servers the price of Windows goes down (more Windows VM’s on the same box with a Datacenter license) and the price of vSphere goes up via vTax.

Great logic.

How about those “vSphere Customers” just save the money spent on vSphere and build GAINT Hyper V servers. The cost savings alone would pay for the DataCenter license.