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The high price of memory and solid-state storage has almost everyone worried – but not VMware, because the most innovative new feature in the Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) private cloud suite it launched last year is memory tiering tech that allows offload of data from RAM to NVMe drives. VMware has always promoted VCF 9 memory …

  1. spireite Silver badge

    Trojan horse saving

    Broadcom / VMWare touting their memory tiering is nothing but a ruse at this point from a saving perspective. It's not a selling point, because any savings on memory purchases are more than eaten up by their screwing the pooch on licensing costs.

    Only existing customers are likely to use it, and they probably are already.

    It's not going to convince customers to stay when their now not-perpetual licences come up for forced renewal. They will be heading for the exits no matter what..

    Probably saying Tierio on the way out.

    I

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Unless you add in the cost of VMWare licenses...

    ...in which case you'd be better off buying the RAM. In any case, you get features like memory tiering out of the box with KVM with modern Linux distros. It's just a standard OS feature.

  3. lordminty Bronze badge

    I'm amazed no-one has thought of this before!

    "the most innovative new feature in the Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) private cloud suite it launched last year is memory tiering tech that allows offload of data from RAM to NVMe drives."

    Oh, they have? Why didn't anyone tell us that IBM mainframe VM has been doing this since 1967.

    They've reinvented mainframe paging and swapping.

  4. Ken G Silver badge
    Trollface

    Every day in every way

    VMWare is coming closer to rebuilding a mainframe.

  5. PCScreenOnly Silver badge

    Really

    Windows does paging and while most of us have decent amount of RAM these days and reduce paging, I can see that with so many NVME it can become useful

    However, a 2TB NVME ssd I got just over a year ago is now 4x its cost

    1. Sandtitz Silver badge

      Re: Really

      "However, a 2TB NVME ssd I got just over a year ago is now 4x its cost"

      Everything is getting more expensive, but the cost of 2TB of DRAM is not in comparable to cost of 2TB NVMe drive.

      Also, not all hosts can be populated with 2TB of memory.

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