Vmware training
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That is (rather low) corporate pricing. Additional discounts are only available for the academic sector such as schools, universities and teaching hospitals. I remember supplier VMware to hospitals last year with discounts but I understand this has now been removed.
Oh, and Charities too
Oh, and Charities too
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We definitely get further discounts being academic, but i'm unsure exactly what sort of discount, be it percentage or otherwise as the prices you've given are definitely more than we're paying. Two years ago we got 4 x CPU licenses for £365 each, no idea what they cost now though as they seem to change the prices every week!
That said, i sent an angry email to vmware last night in a bid to get them to lower their prices for schools......it won't work but anything's worth a try
Given the squeeze on expenditure in the public sector, and as an IT professional proposing a new virtualisation infrastructure for a school (I gather that is your intention) then I hope you are considering other virtualisation technologies, not just blindly walking into VMware?
certainly not blindly walking in to it, it's already in place!
I'm already running 6 hosts with vcenter and i'm currently configuring vmotion, the reason for the questions surrounding licensing was an attempt both get a better understanding of the structure and see if there was any way of making additions cheaper, though that doesn't look possible sadly.
We started with 3 hosts and vcenter foundation on esxi 3.5 and have slowly expanded over the past 2 years.
We definitely get further discounts being academic, but i'm unsure exactly what sort of discount, be it percentage or otherwise as the prices you've given are definitely more than we're paying. Two years ago we got 4 x CPU licenses for £365 each, no idea what they cost now though as they seem to change the prices every week!
That said, i sent an angry email to vmware last night in a bid to get them to lower their prices for schools......it won't work but anything's worth a try
Yes, a good rant always makes you feel better
If you are interested I can get academic prices tomorrow. It would obviously have to be through VMware and not HP.