I use VMware for many many years, always the free versions, starting with vmware server 2.0. And I have to state, I never ever understood, why vmware server 2.0 was free while vmware workstation was so expensive ...
And now I'm urged to license VMware "whatever", because I didn't find out, what I really need to license.
Fact is: There is a IBM BladeCenter S full with 6 BladeServer HS21 with each 2 processor and a lot of RAM, 16-64GB each.
They all run ESXi 4.0-5.5, I don't care if they are "supported", they run.
I use Sphere Client with each of them. So I open 6 times the client and can do whatever I want to do.
I would like to keep the 6 servers into ONE Sphere Client. I want to move one virtual machine from one server to another. I want to take automatic snapshots of all virtual machines.
So my question is:
What license I will need? Why is it so difficult for someone, who never ever spent money on VMware, to spend money on VMware?