VMware hits AMD hard with its new per-CPU pricing model and its 32-core limit

[WYP]

A 32-core limit in a world where 64-core processors are already available.



Read more about VMware's new licensing model hitting AMD's EPYC lineup hard.

 

[grec]

Lets hope they realise that MCM's break the economic assumptions of their current pricing model and find a proper alternative for the whole system sooner rather than later.

 

[Fomdoo]

This will just push people to VMware competitors.

 

[RobM]

I guess they have been got at by Intel, in a bid to keep clients on Intel cpus.

 

[g0ggles1994]

"To know who organised an event, find out who stands to gain the most from it"
Definitely something going behind the scenes here, given VMWare is a subsidiary of Dell, and Dell are best buddies with another silicon company

 

[grec]

To be fair, this more or less just brings their policy closer to the per-core license models of lots of other enterprise software(Such as Windows Server), which is no less draconian or arbitrary, but seemingly more profitable with the popularity of the per-core licensing model.

I think it's safe to say the driving force here is VMwares desire to increase their bottom lines by removing a "loophole" in their pricing model, with no external forces required to motivate that change. The AMD processors will still be cheaper per core than the Intel ones to use and operate too so it doesn't flip any competitive advantage.

 

[meuvoy]

This will just push people to VMware competitors.

My thoughts exactly. Even if the whole VM industry follows suit, someone, somewhere will see this as an opportunity and make a VM software with per CPU pricing and attract the clients that surely won't be liking to pay double for their VMs.

 

[Warchild]

Proxmox may get a surge in popularity then.

 

[AlienALX]

'kin bumlords.