http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/calculator.html
Very simple calculator for getting the TCO of VMware versus non-virtualization methods. It lets you change some of the assumptions of cost and has a nice graph at the end. Some of the costs are still hidden (cost of GB of SAN vs GB of local storage, iSCSI connectivity costs versus Fiber connectivity costs, etc) but it is still pretty good.
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Updated: 12/3/2007
Now supports the following:
- Support for HW v6 platforms (Workstation 6.x, ACE 2.x, Fusion 1.x)
--Support for (3rd party) Acronis TIB images
- Experimental support for 32/64 bit Vista environments
- Support for importing Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0 images
- Ability to specify speed/duplex settings on the physical NIC during cold clone migrations using the Converter BootCD