VMware Kills vRAM Licensing, Will Focus On vSphere Cloud Bundles

VMware is discontinuing an unpopular server virtualization-licensing program and will focus on marketing vSphere and its other cloud computing products as a unified stack.

In its upcoming release of vSphere 5.1, VMware is getting rid of vRAM entitlements, which debuted with vSphere 5 and determine how much memory customers are permitted to allocate to virtual machines on the host.

In vSphere 4 and vSphere 4.1, VMware used a per-CPU licensing model that's based on the number of server cores. But in vSphere 5, VMware is pegging licensing cost to the amount of virtual memory that customers allocate to virtual machines on the hosts.

VMware will return to its previous CPU-based licensing model and will announce the move at VMworld when it unveils vSphere 5.1.

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