VMware Virtual SAN Licensing and Pricing

Last week, VMware has announced the general availability of VMware Virtual SAN. At a webcast event that was held a few days ago they did not release licensing and pricing information. Today VMware disclosed the secret: Virtual SAN is priced at $2,495 per CPU and at $50 per user for VDI deployments. Let's see how competitors at the Hyper-Converged market like Nutanix, Simplivity, Pivot3 or Scale Computing will react.

VMware Virtual SAN
Standalone license without scale limit. Licensed per CPU socket.

All features
Unlimited capacity
vSphere Distributed Switch
All hosts in a VSAN enabled cluster have to be licensed

$2,495 / CPU

VMware Virtual SAN for Desktop
Standalone license to be used for Virtual Desktops only.

All features
Unlimited capacity
vSphere Distributed Switch

$50 / Concurrent Connection

VSA Upgrade Bundle
vSphere Storage Appliance to Virtual SAN upgrade bundle

No direct upgrade path for VSA
Manual installation and upgrade required
Bundle contains 6 CPU licenses
Valid through September 15, 2014

$9,180

VMware Virtual SAN with Data Protection
VSAN bundled with vSphere Data Protection Advanced

All features
Unlimited capacity
vSphere Distributed Switch
Valid through September 15, 2014

$2,875 / CPU

Beta Promo
VMware offers an 20% discount on Virtual SAN for Beta users

All features
Unlimited capacity
vSphere Distributed Switch
Minimum purchase of 10 licenses required (First Purchase only)
Valid through June 15, 2014

$1,996 / CPU