Its awesome, its really, really good, says Daniel Jacobs, systems analyst at the Foothills School Division, which encompasses 22 schools in Alberta, Canada.
The official explained that he bought two ESXi hypervisor licenses last year, so todays announcement effectively frees up around $1,000 to spend on other IT gear. [The ESXi licenses] are coming up for renewal, so obviously paying for them wont be an issue.
Despite todays announcement, Burton Groups Wolf feels that there is more work for VMware to do around pricing, particularly with its Virtual Infrastructure software bundle, which starts at $995, rising to a cost of $5750.
They need to add either more features around the free ESXi or drop the pricing of some of the licensing tiers that they have today for things like Virtual Infrastructure, he says. They want to be as aggressive as they can in this period [because] by 2010 there will be several mature offerings that could compete with VMware.
Hypervisors have certainly become something of a key battleground in the virtualization war, with the major vendors attempting to embed the technology in as many servers as possible.
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