If you purchase VMware Cloud Foundation as a bundle license, the pricing and all the VMs will be included. It's a better option compared to buying individual licenses. You can save up to forty percent of the cost. It's like getting a Visa and a Sixty license as a bundle instead of buying them separately. However, if you purchase the products separately, it will be costly. I would rate the pricing within VMware a five out of ten.
It's not a cheap product. It was pretty expensive. For example, both of my implementations were about $15 million, however, I was displacing solutions that were over $30 million. I was displacing converged infrastructure, like Vblocks from VCE that were costing the customers over $30 million. I was able to really cut that cost in half with the hyper-converged platform. IN that sense, we really saved the client money.
Sr. Manager-Data Center and Virtualization at Omgea Exim Ltd
MSP
2020-01-30T07:55:00Z
Jan 30, 2020
All licensing costs are perpetual. You have to pay for support on a yearly basis. For our country, we are an under-developed country so the price should be lower. VMware charges too much in our country. If our customer has the option to buy a server for $4,000 or $5,000, but VMware asks for two-person licensing $7,000 to $8,000, that is more than the hardware price. So sometimes, the customer cannot pay for it because it's too expensive.
VMware Cloud Foundation makes it easy to deploy and run a hybrid cloud. VMware Cloud Foundation provides integrated cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and security) and cloud management services to run enterprise applications in both private and public environments.
I rate the tool's pricing a seven out of ten.
The pricing is moderate. I would rate it six out of ten.
I give the price a three out of ten.
If you purchase VMware Cloud Foundation as a bundle license, the pricing and all the VMs will be included. It's a better option compared to buying individual licenses. You can save up to forty percent of the cost. It's like getting a Visa and a Sixty license as a bundle instead of buying them separately. However, if you purchase the products separately, it will be costly. I would rate the pricing within VMware a five out of ten.
The price of VMware Cloud Foundation is expensive. I rate the price of VMware Cloud Foundation a two out of five.
It's not a cheap product. It was pretty expensive. For example, both of my implementations were about $15 million, however, I was displacing solutions that were over $30 million. I was displacing converged infrastructure, like Vblocks from VCE that were costing the customers over $30 million. I was able to really cut that cost in half with the hyper-converged platform. IN that sense, we really saved the client money.
We would like the licensing to be cheaper. Right now, users pay yearly subscriptions.
VMware Cloud Foundation is overpriced, but I think we get what we pay for.
There is an annual license required to use the solution.
All licensing costs are perpetual. You have to pay for support on a yearly basis. For our country, we are an under-developed country so the price should be lower. VMware charges too much in our country. If our customer has the option to buy a server for $4,000 or $5,000, but VMware asks for two-person licensing $7,000 to $8,000, that is more than the hardware price. So sometimes, the customer cannot pay for it because it's too expensive.
The licensing is expensive compared with Hyper V and Unitech's platform.
The pricing is expensive, but you pay for what you get. The price ultimately could be more competitive in my opinion.