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ThatVaiGuy
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Petition to have VMware add DRS and SVMotion to Essentials Plus

VMware, please stop cutting us off at the legs and include SVmotion and DRS in the vSphere Plus Licensing package.  These features are not unique to enterprises. Small businesses look to virtualization to reduce costs, consolidate resources, provide High Availability and still maintain optimum performance from a group of only three physical servers.  The feature set is a key sales point, but requiring a more than $15,000 price increase to small businesses to get an automation feature so that a cluster can distribute it's load automatically is NOT unique to enterprises.  The enterprise licenses include other features that are not necessarily needed by SMBs, but these two are instrumental in selling your product.

...Oh, and drop this dumb vRAM entitlement licensing thing too. It just makes you look bad to my customers.  It's worse than explaining cell phone plans and is a major turn off to customers.

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