VMware customers are venting their spleen over the licensing changes coming in vSphere 5, which in some cases will amount to a significant price hike. Evidence of customers' frustration can be found ...

VMware has changed its licence pricing for vSphere 5 in response to concerns from customers, who felt they would be penalised for running the virtualisation suite on servers with large amounts of RAM.

VMware vSphere 5.5, the latest release of VMware’s flagship virtualization hypervisor and central management server, has something for companies of all sizes. Usability and speed enhancements to the ...

vSphere 6.5 is out, and it marks the beginning of the end of the Adobe Flash-based Flex client! There are other features and enhancements offered up as part of vSphere 6.5, but the new HTML5 client is ...

VMware listened to the growing din around its vSphere 5 vRAM entitlements, and announced an increase of vRAM limits in a blog Wednesday. As a response to customer feedback, VMware announced that it ...

In vSphere 5, VMware is moving from a licensing model that's based on the number of server cores to one that's based on the amount of vRAM, or memory that customers allocate to virtual machines on the ...

VMware hopes its vSphere 5 virtualisation suite will encourage small businesses to use its hypervisor by quadrupling the power available to virtual machines and eliminating the need for a dedicated ...

Three changes reduce the burden of VMware's licensing price hikes, but it's best to also adopt open source hypervisors to counter the hikes EMC VMware’s vSphere 5 new licensing model raised eyebrows ...

The newly announced VMware vSphere 5 has a new "pooled" pricing model that charges customers based on the virtual memory configured in a virtual server. The model does away with limitations on the ...

LONDON -- Despite its support for humungous virtual machines (VMs) with up to 1 TB of RAM and 32 virtual CPUs, user uptake of VMware vSphere 5 is lagging -- at least for now. Much like users in the US ...