VMWare announced wide-sweeping changes to its licensing structure. If you’re in the market for VMWare server licenses, now is the time to buy before VMWare 5 hits the streets.

They key changes are below:
1. VMware is no longer licensing just based on the cores within a CPU.
2. After the official release, VMware will no longer be selling previous versions of vSphere.
3. In the new release of VMware vSphere 5.0, VMware will no longer be supporting the ESX hypervisor.
4. In the new version, they will be eliminating the Advanced Edition of vSphere and migrating those customers to the Enterprise Edition.

All the details can be found in the White Paper VMWare published which can be found here – VMWare Pricing. If you need more information, please don’t hesitate to give us a call.