@Dashrender Belive SA is required for Exchange/SQL to move hosts if memory serves.

@DustinB3403 There are other "cheap" VMware kits for different purposes (vSphere Robo edition, foundation etc).

@anonymous This is not correct. That is the price WITH one year of support. Additional support (And upgrades) are ~1K a year (assuming mission critical 24/7 phone support contract) so comparing that to free anything else is apples/oranges.

Replacing a Nexus 7K with a Brocade VDX.

I feel special (and finally recovered from it).

Personally use VMware LogInsight. Pricing is per socket, or per device logged (and they have a VSPP price per month). Fairly reasonable and super easy to work with.

All communication problems can be solved with pretty pictures in IT.

Nifty, but it only works if your moving computers. VMware' Migrate can do in place XP --- 7 re-imaging, While migrating the profile. Can even pre-stage the Windows 7 files and do a fan out imaging system for ROBO so you can do hundreds of clients at the same time.