![]() The first step to understanding VMWare licensing is to examine these license metric definitions and how they map to each product line. Within VMware’s large portfolio of products, the main families are vSphere, vCenter, vRealize, ESX and the desktop product range, Fusion. While smaller in in terms of revenue and customers than SAM-managed big hitters such as Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and IBM, VMware is still an important vendor to manage as its software is expensive and its licensing models can be confusing. Understanding these changes and VMware’s overall licensing approach is critical to meeting Software Asset Management (SAM) goals of effective compliance and license optimization. Significant recent changes, including Dell’s acquisition of VMWare’s parent company, EMC, have led to a shift in the way VMware licenses and sells its software. ![]() VMWare stands as one of the largest providers of cloud and virtualization software products and services in the world. ![]() Following Dell’s acquisition of VMware, EMC has led a shift in how it licences and sells software.
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