Since September 1, 2010 the following VMware vCenter products have moved from the traditional per processor (CPU) licensing model to a new per Virtual Machine (VM) licensing model.  Products like <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-appspeed/">vCenter App Speed</a>, <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-capacityiq/">vCenter Capacity IQ</a>, <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-chargeback/">vCenter Chargeback</a>, and <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/">vCenter Site Recovery Manager </a>have moved to this new VM licensing model. While other VMware products like <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/">VMware vSphere</a>,<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server/">vCenter Server</a>, <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server-heartbeat/">vCenter Server Heartbeat</a>, <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/labmanager/">vCenter Lab Manager</a>, and <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/lifecycle-manager/">vCenter lifecycle Manager</a> will continue with their traditional  licensing models.

How will this affect your company?

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If you have purchased per processor licenses previously for the products that are about to covert into per VM licensing, VMware and eGroup will help you with a transition plan that will best suit your company's needs. There are also options to trade in your per processor licenses for per VM licenses. One thing to note, if you have already purchased into a per processor licensing model for any of the vCenter products listed above, you may continue to do so until December 15, 2010. After that date, the old per processor licensing will no longer be available for purchase and the transition to per VM licensing will become fully implemented and the only way to purchase these licenses.

If you are new to VMware and their vCenter products they offer, this new licensing model will be a great fit for you.  It is considered less expensive to purchase and easier to implement theses vCenter management products within your organization because it will eliminate the need to license these VMware products per processor. These VMware products that are licensed per VM will only be sold in increments of 25 VMs per license.