VMware Pricing Changes

VMware this year has decided to make changes to their licensing in order to better address the needs of their customers. These new packages are tailored to the top use cases from VMware customers in both SDDC and Hybrid Cloud.

You should see increased value with more features in the product editions like log insight being included with vSphere now and added portability of your licenses. 

New product line up for VMware vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM) editions:

• vSphere Standard (STD), vSphere Enterprise Plus (ENT+), vSOM Enterprise Plus (ENT+) edition
• vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Plus: License price increase by $150 to $4,395
• vCenter Server Standard (STD): Includes limited version of Log Insight at @ $5,995

vCloud Suite (vCS) = vRealize Suite (vRS) + vSphere Enterprise Plus for vCloud Suite:

• SDDC Monitoring in all vRS editions
• Portable Licensing
• Management beyond vSphere – SDDC, hybrid cloud, supported public clouds and heterogeneous
• environments
• Aligned to use cases: Intelligent Operations, Automated IT to IaaS, DevOps-Ready IT
• Customer Impact
• Customers with vCS licenses and on active SnS are entitled to all components of vCS 6.0 and 7.0
• Minimal impact to license and SnS costs
• $500/CPU price increase for vCS STD and ADV and $2,000/CPU price decrease for vCS ENT
• 4-10% increase in SnS​

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New vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management
​See the VMware pricing page for further information.

vRealize Suite (vRS) and vCloud Suite (vCS) Update for Changes in 2016:

VMware has vastly simplified the packaging of their cloud management and compute virtualization product portfolio. 
​See the VMware Blog for indepth information.