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kickmaleerie

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February 15th, 2011 01:00

Availability of VMWare Management Plugin

In the UK at least this product appears to be unavaialble to Dell customers . Our Dell Enterprise Account Manager -after 2 weeks of prodding - now tells me this is only available in the US and that there is no pricing or launch date for the product in the UK. This is very frustrating as we are a longstanding Dell shop that runs extensive VMWare infrastructure.

Can anyone tell me what's going on here?

Thanks

john

Kong Yang

180 Posts

February 17th, 2011 14:00

Private Message sent.

Kong Yang

180 Posts

February 22nd, 2011 14:00

The following is from Doug Iler, Dell Sr. Manager, OpenManage Product Marketing.

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John and all,

Dell does offer the Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter globally. We have provided John with direct details and provided his account manager updated information. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Thanks –
Doug Iler

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If any of you have any issues getting purchase/availability information of the Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter, please let me or Doug@Dell know. We will work with you and your account teams.

bennice2002

27 Posts

February 24th, 2011 08:00

Link to download? I haven't heard of this yet and would like more info.

Kong Yang

180 Posts

February 24th, 2011 09:00

kickmaleerie

15 Posts

February 24th, 2011 12:00

We are fine now following Doug's help and our account team has been in contact.

Many thanks.

John

kickmaleerie

15 Posts

February 24th, 2011 12:00

Dell do not provide a download for evaluation which is slightly inconvenient. Providing a 3 server license with 30 days evaluation would be appropriate. You may find that your account team will help you out with this.

kickmaleerie

15 Posts

February 24th, 2011 13:00

The pricing structure is *very* heavily weighted to large license volumes; it is nearly x36 as expensive to purchase per server for a 3 server license as compared to a 51-1000 license.

I can't see the business case for this. Why screw small shops on this as the distribution costs are flat anyway? The real costs given the potential market size are probably near zero so why not just provide it free of charge and load up on the tin pricing to recoup? So c'mon Dell stop being dumb on this and give it away like you do with OMSA, DMC etc.

For example, in the UK:

51-1000 Sever license: 2073.34 INC VAT = 2.07 per 11G sever
50 Server license: 1,392.00 INC VAT = 27.84 per 11G server
10 Server license: 612.00 INC VAT = 61.20 per 11G server
3 Server license: 228 INC VAT = 76.00 per 11G server

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