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 ...

On Wednesday, VMware unveiled a list of changes to its vSphere 5 licensing model that the company hopes will calm customer concerns over higher costs after transitioning from vSphere 4.x to the new ...

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 ...

Oracle has licensed VMware vSphere® Storage APIs to enable customers to more easily manage Oracle storage from VMware environments. VMware users and service providers will be able to more easily take ...

VMware has faced an almost-immediate backlash from users over new vSphere licensing arrangements with some threatening to jump ship to Microsoft's HyperV in retaliation. The revised license ...

We need to do a VMware consolidation down from 4.0 Enterprise to 5.1 Essentials Plus. I have 4 hosts that are going to be retired as part of the migration but I need to get the VMs off of them first.

After what may be considered a failed, year-long licensing experiment, EMC VMware is ready to tear down a virtual wall it created for itself with the institution of a new licensing model introduced ...