The Incremental Cost of a VMware Licence

A VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise licence for 2 processors costs £2948.00.
Gold Support for for the same costs £619.46

However, at least at my company, there is additional software used in the VMware deployment. So the incremental cost of a VMware license isn't just £3567.46

Veeam Reporter is used for Infrastructure Reporting, which costs $150, which includes the first years support charge. An additional year's support is $25.

Vizioncore vCharter is used for Consolodated Performance Monitoring. vCharter costs £169.00 per CPU/year incl 1 year support.

VMware Consolodated Backup & Vizioncore vRanger Pro are used for Virtual Machine Backup. VCB is part and parcel of the VI 3 Enterprise Licence. vRanger costs £279.00 per CPU.

All that comes to £523.00, making a grand total of £4090.46.

Obviously specific prices are only correct at time of going to press and where foreign companies were involved probably subject to the vagaries of exchange rate movements! However, the general point that your costs are not only limited to the cost of the VMware licence remains.

N.B. all prices in this blog are quoted without VAT - UK Sales tax.