VMware released a new virtualization costs calculator. This “Cost-Per-Application” calculator compares the acquisition cost of VMware VI3 versus HyperV with SCVMM.
It is a really easy to use calculator, which requires a minimum input from the user. It enables to download the results so you can alter more parameters to create a more specific fit to your organization.
Rich Brambley at vmetc.com published a nice article about this new virtualization calculator released by VMware. I was thinking of posting more about it myself but having read Rich’s post I reckoned why? I like the article and it saves me some time so here is a teaser, click on the “read more” link below to read the full article at vmetc.com.
VMware has announced a new online calculator that specifically compares the total cost of implementing VI 3.X and Microsoft Hyper-V. An online tool similar to Microsoft’s competitive calculator introduced last year, the VMware Virtualization Cost-Per-Application Calculator is designed to emphasize that the cost of implementing virtual infrastructure is more than the expense of licenses. In the past many have criticized the cost of VMware’s flagship suite of VI 3.X Enterprise products as too expensive, and with both Citrix and Microsoft now claiming to offer free hypervisors, VMware’s new calculator helps illustrate the message that VM density at equal performance matters to the cost analysis bottom line.
“Following the lead of analysts and customers, VMware has adopted “cost per application” as a more accurate metric to compare costs between virtualization solutions. Going beyond a simplistic license price comparison, evaluating cost per application takes into consideration the number of virtual machines that can be run on a single server, or the ”virtual machine density” enabled by a specific virtualization solution. The higher the virtual machine density enabled, the higher the server consolidation ratio. The higher the consolidation ratio, the more an organization can reduce its infrastructure costs (including costs for servers, networking. storage, power and datacenter space), and software costs, (including guest operating system and virtualization software licenses). Following this logic, the solution that can provide the higher consolidation of servers – without an impact to performance – also provides the most value to customers.”
I decided to test the calculator with a 50 VM / application example.