Then I installed ESXi 5.1 onto a flash drive and... registered the host. OOPS. Like 90% of the available features disappeared thanks to using the free license. For example, I can no longer clone VMs ...

VMware's vSphere 5 pricing could accelerate the shift toward a mixture of commercial and open source products in the virtualization arena EMC VMware’s vSphere 5 brings new features and performance ...

With the introduction of vSphere 5, VMware created the concept of vRAM pools and added this as a critical component of purchasing a vSphere license. While vSphere is still licensed per CPU socket, now ...

VMware is discontinuing an unpopular server virtualization-licensing program and will focus on marketing vSphere and its other cloud computing products as a unified stack, CRN has learned. In its ...

I need a vSphere license key for the "free" tier, but I need it to be for vSphere 5.5 not 6.0. All I can seem to find at ...

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 ...

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 ...

It wasn’t exactly a secret that VMware was planning to change to a licensing model based on a count of virtual machines rather than CPUs for the next version of vSphere, the virtualization and cloud ...