VMware ESXi Pricing

“Even if you plan a cluster, which will cost physical raw hard drive storage space like a RAID will, the cost over replacing 5 individual physical servers still comes out cheaper.”

“The cost savings in hardware (space and number of servers) and power consumption is worth the upfront cost.”

“It does cost to have the licenses, but you can calculate the cost of downtime if you didn't have it to see if it is worth it for you.”

“The license cost may be expensive.”

“We were able to reduce license cost and management cost, by reducing the total number of machines we had to support by leveraging their HA features. … The licenses policy are not very rigid and the best options are stuck behind the most expensive license.”

“Lowered cost of overtime for engineers as it has streamlined and simplified management of VMs. If you have a need to grow quickly and you start out with 'essentials' it's going to cost quite a bit to... … It's more expensive than Hyper-V but our vendors seem to know how to support EXSi better than Hyper-v.”

“VMware ESXi is a smaller footprint, the one thing Hyper-v has is cost it is free with the purchase of a windows license that allows you to run at least two windows VM's within the Hyper-v server. … This is not only large cost savings in hardware but also in power and cooling.”

“There's a reason many organizations feel that the ROI is worth it and invest in VMware, making it a de facto standard of sorts. … Knowing that someone will pick up the phone and troubleshoot a severity 1 issue is well worth the price.”

“There are full-featured versions that come at a high cost, but there are also versions that lack some features that may not be needed at a lower cost, and even a free version for small lab...”

“ROI is very good Cost saving Easy to operate.”

“We are a school with a limited budget, and if we had to buy physical servers for all of our needs, we would exceed our budget many times over With ESXi, we are able to put on average 30-40 virtual...”