Vsphere Pricing
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lee
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last modified
Aug 12, 2009 06:02 PM
Approximate Pricing
Note: Pricing is complex due to multiple entry-level pricing discount tiers. This is just my best understanding of the pricing as of Aug 2009, YMMV.
Note: Discounts of 20% on top of those listed below are in effect for some products, mostly Acceleration Kits.
Pricing Tiers
- Standalone ESXi host (FREE)
- SMB Bundle ( 3 hosts , 2 CPU/host ) Includes Vsphere Management Server Foundation
$999 ( $200/CPU )
$3700 ($600/CPU) with HA, Consolidated Backup & Recovery - Advanced Acceleration Kit ( limited to 3 hosts, 2 CPU/host ) includes Vsphere Management Server Foundation
$13,000 add Fault Tolerance + Vmotion to above - Enterprise Acceleration Kit ( limited to 3 hosts / 6 CPU )
$26,000 add Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) , includes Vsphere Management Server Standard - EnterprisePlus Acceleration Kit ( limited to 8 CPU ), includes Vsphere Management Server Standard
$33,000 add 2CPU and distributed network vSwitch - A-la-cart ( must purchase Vcenter, or upgrade Vcenter foundation , in addtion to per socket licences )
- Advanced - (FT, Vmotion ) $2800/CPU
- Enterprise - (DRS, DPM, Storage Vmotion ) $3600/CPU
- Enterprise Plus - (distributed network vSwitch) $4300/CPU
- Vsphere Vcenter server $6000 ( $4000 upgrade from Foundation )
Note that ESXi is very picky about hardware, especially disk controllers. Please review the hardware compatibility list before any server purchase. Also all servers in a cluster must use nearly identical CPU's
HW Compatibility information
FYI- I had picked up a used SuperMicro 1U server on Ebay for my own
use ( I think it's an AS-1020P-T ) with H8DSP-i motherboard Dual Opteron, Dual Core ( 4X SATA
disks ) 2x 1GB Ethernet and it works just fine with ESX3.5 and 4.0 as
long a the BIOS disk controller RAID is disabled, so you just have 4
independant disks. - Lee
The following lists official and un-official compatibility info for ESXi
