In vSphere 5, VMware is moving from a licensing model that's based on the number of server cores to one that's based on the amount of vRAM, or memory that customers allocate to virtual machines on the ...

VMware on Tuesday unveiled a new virtual based licensing entitlement called vRAM, which pertains to the amount of physical memory configured to a virtual machine. Customers with vSphere Essentials, ...

We're looking at using ESXi 5 on a couple of dual CPU r510s with 128GB of RAM each, but without a SAN. We really just want to be able to utilize the hosts for multiple VMs, but our redundancy is ...

In an announcement made on Wednesday, VMware said it is changing its licensing model for vSphere 5 in response to negative feedback from customers. According to a blog posted by VMware vice president ...