VMware vSphere Pricing

“so long as you patch vmware timely backups and snapshot protection is amazing and easy to use and saves admin time and money to get some advanced option which we would like the license model is way... … cheap option for clients who have cost issues for some implementations.”

“VMotion alone is worth its price tag, made our company save tons of money and time.”

“Besides having to pay for the initial license, organizations also need to keep up with annual maintenance contracts for each license they purchase.”

“No we have not purchased premium support from VMware as our environment does not require 24 by 7 support, we require support during our working time which was covered in normal support and budget was... … It depends on the overall cost of ownership as we have to compare cost to competitors' prices with respect to features set offered.”

“However, the benefits both from management and cost savings are well worth it. … I also really dislike the feature differences from standard, enterprise, and enterprise plus.”

“Low budget and cost effective product for business Its provide the centralization platform to manage all virtual machines and its resources We can create the multiple VMs on same physical...”

“Low budget and cost effective.”

“License are expensive, we are considering AHV now. … The license is expensive.”

“Negative in that the cost has forced us to try to use it for everything to ensure our ROI goals are met.”

“Small to Midsize companies looking to reduce hardware cost (best solution to deploy VDI hosted environment for users) Best solution for remote users (No connectivity issues, availability to services...”

“Pricing - The pricing makes it harder to justify for a small business when Microsoft is giving away virtualization.”