Virtual Iron Offers a Cheap Upgrade Solution for VMware Customers

Virtual Iron Software is attempting to lure away existing VMware customers by offering a limited time upgrade program that is only good for the first 100 customers who take the bite.

Virtual Iron’s upgrade program is designed for VMware users currently operating with VMware Server and/or VMware ESX Server 2.5 but haven’t yet made the leap to upgrading to VMware Infrastructure 3. According to Virtual Iron, these users want to take advantage of the benefits being offered by VI3 such as high availability, business continuity and utility computing, but these organizations don’t want to pay the high price required to upgrade to VI3. Additionally, Virtual Iron says that these same users are holding back upgrading to VI3 because their current investment in ESX licenses and maintenance don’t earn them any pricing discounts. Complexity of migrating to VI3 is also listed as a concern.

The company claims their upgrade program will provide VMware users a simple way to upgrade their virtual environment and still get all the advanced virtual infrastructure management capabilities that they need. The program includes seamless virtual machine migration from VMware to Virtual Iron by bundling PlateSpin’s PowerConvert platform.

Virtual Iron offers the VMware Upgrade Program in three different product bundles. Each includes the following:

• Perpetual Licenses for Virtual Iron Software

• One (1) Year of Virtual Iron Gold Level Support

• PlateSpin Power Convert V2V Migration and Support

• Additional V2V Migrations at a Special Discount

Upgrade Program Bundles and Pricing

Bundle 1 – 2 Servers, 4 Sockets, 24 V2V Conversions – $3,800

Bundle 2 – 3 Servers, 6 Sockets, 36 V2V Conversions – $5,700

Bundle 3 – 4 Servers, 8 Sockets, 48 V2V Conversions – $7,600

More information about the upgrade program is available on Virtual Iron’s Web site, here.