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The prices I stated are accurate, I've had a proper quote from Grey Matter this morning and they are over priced. The question im really interested in the answer to, which is why i posted the thread is - What are peoples opinion of the VMWare Essentials Plus bundle? Is it sufficient for the school environment or do we need to stump up the cash and buy Enterprise? Thanks

Hi, Im currently looking into a summer project of virtualizing our servers with vmware. With this im also looking at VDI and maybe starting small and going with maybe a 100 vmware view licence. Does anyone have a similar setup? I've done a lot of reading and spoken to lots of compainies but currently im being told from half the companies that I should buy vmware enterprise edition licence which costs about £1100 per procesor and the other half say I will be fine with vmware essentials plus licence which costs only about £2000 and supports 3 hosts. I know there are lots more features in the enterprise edition licence but do I really need them? One company have said when cloning virtual machines for vmware view it will take approx 20 minutes each machine on essentials plus licence but only take a few seconds with the essentials licence. I know there are lots more features I wouldn't get but I have to remember we are a school, not a bank. 15 minutes downtime is bad but not the end of the world if the cost is right. Id appreciate any information anyone might have that would help. Thanks for reading...