VMware backs down on vSphere 5 virtual memory tax  Big Blue
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outsource your DNS  VMware has adjusted the price of its
upcoming vSphere 5 hypervisor, responding to criticism from
customers.  The server virtualization juggernaut has learned a
lesson about pricing that nearly killed IBM in the mainframe
market in the 1980s and did kill Sun Microsystems in the 2000s:
if you have a monopoly, you can't push the prices up too hard.
Users won't just balk. They will take their business elsewhere.
In mid-July, VMware launched the ESXi 5 server virtualization
hypervisor and related vSphere 5 tools for doing useful things
with it such as VMotion live migration and distributed resource
scheduling across a cluster, just to name two. ESXi 5 was
boosted to run across machines with up to 2TB of physical memory
(double the previous release), supported disks with more than
2TB of raw capacity, and could host as many as 512 VMs on a
single physical server (up from 320