A few weeks back I had a reader asking me What is the cheapest VMware vSphere license. I told him that it is the vSphere Essentials Kit allowing to manage 3 Bi-CPU hosts via vCenter server. But I was ...

This kit includes 6 CPU licenses of vSphere Essentials Plus (for 3 servers with up to 2 processors each) and 1 license for vCenter Server Essentials. So far it is the same as the vSphere Essentials, ...

Having posted over in the Windows Technical Mojo to see if my goals can be achieved with Hyper-V instead of VMWare, I'm back to the VMWare camp. I was considering Hyper-V due to ease of licensing on ...

Small to medium size businesses often have the same basic needs as a larger organization, but don't have the staff, the expertise or the desire to deal with a complex infrastructure. Some of their ...

My client purchased full vSphere and vCenter standard licenses for the systems they use (we supply the OVAs). They run a vCenter VM that manages all 6-12 ESXi servers (5.1). We'd like to build a ...

Virtualization has revolutionized the IT landscape, and VMware's vSphere is a leading platform driving this transformation. vSphere Standard is a core offering within the vSphere suite, providing a ...