AMD: EPYC Is Still The Virtualization King Despite VMware Change

AMD is downplaying the impact of VMware's move to double licensing costs for processors with more than 32 cores, saying that its processors can still drive major cost savings for virtualization, even if the economics of its higher core count processors have "slightly" changed."AMD continues to lead the industry on performance, features and TCO in virtualized environments for both 1 socket and 2 socket systems," the company said in a statement to CRN. "While the new VMware licensing guidelines change the economics slightly for higher core count processors, AMD remains committed to VMware as a winning virtualization solution for AMD EPYC customers."