I fail to see the logic why the ex free version should not be like it has before. Contrary, MS Hyper-V 2008 R2 is free as well as XENServer. Citrix and Microsoft both are companies like VMware. ...
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I fail to see the logic why the ex free version should not be like it has before. Contrary, MS Hyper-V 2008 R2 is free as well as XENServer. Citrix and Microsoft both are companies like VMware. To be honest I have one customer who asked me about the Essentials 4.x version. My answer, and my feelings about the Essentials (not the plus version) is that it really lacks some interesting features in ESX 4 and also it seems in 5: This quote shows the main important feature which only Essentials Plus still has to offer: Improve application availability with VMware High Availability and vMotion I asked the customer if the centralized vSphere console would help him that much and he refused to buy the essentials. Now, today he is forced to buy the essentials, just to use more then 8GB (or 16GB) . With the minimum of the 2 companies I named, I would call it a bad decision from VMWare. I use Ubuntu LTS version at customers. Same would be with Debian. So is it bad to use stuff @ customers where there's no phone to call. I do Novell and Microsoft and most of the time I had a problem the Internet was a much better solution place then the companies itself. But, I will not say that the VMware support itself is bad. No, in a SAN environment with FC and vSphere as well as View both running the VMware support was great. But most of the time I had problems with VMware ESX/vSphere/View the problems had been solved by an update or sometimes they had been produced by an update But this has nothing to do with VMware. Same happenend to Exchange RU3 and RU4 for Exchange 2010 So no bad feelings against the VMware support but a strange feeling about the recent changed prices and strategy affecting not only the bigger installations but also the smaller ones. We will see. Like others I'm following MS, Citrix and RHEL products more closely. Especially MS because with Enterprise Edition for small companies I have covered the Microsoft license stuff. And with Hyper-V included why should I try to sell more? It's hard enough to sell needed newer servers anyway and if asked what are the advantages of the Essentials version for a customer with 2 or 3 servers without HA/vMotion should I tell the SMB customer that he can use one central vSphere console, which he never will use anyway?