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.

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 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 ...

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'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 ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Theres been a lot of hoopla made over how will VMware ...

In 2020, I went on a writing spree, producing several articles about running VMware's bare-metal, type 1 hypervisor, ESXi 7, on a Raspberry Pi 4. In fact, I wrote so many that a publisher from ...