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I work at an IT outsourcing company that also has some VMWare farms (though not sure if we reach 20k VMs). What I picked up is that before the acquisition, pri

I work at an IT outsourcing company that also has some VMWare farms (though not sure if we reach 20k VMs). What I picked up is that before the acquisition, price was mostly determined by CPUs on the hypervisor, now it's mostly by RAM. Which means we now have to optimize hypervisor hardware to a different licensing model. I don't think we've seen 10x price hikes, but it could possible if a provider has optimized hard for a metric that is now less relevant, and/or has difference licensing deals. Caveat: I've picked all that up second-hand through the grapevine, I'm not working with our virtualization farms directly. So not 100% on top of what's going on.

rwmj 2y ago
It's the Oracle pricing model. Turn the customer upside down and keep shaking until you've got all their money. They will dress this up in different ways to different customers, but that's the model.
PcChip 2y ago
> price was mostly determined by CPUs on the hypervisor, now it's mostly by RAM. I think you might have that backwards, before we paid based on ram and now we pay based on cores
- NitpickLawyer 2y ago
  > and now we pay based on cores Didn't even oracle drop this monstrosity of a licensing fee? Didn't microsoft also dropped / stoped pursuing it? How on earth do people justify this?