vSphere 5 migration survey

I've already written my thoughts on the new vSphere 5 licensing scheme, and I think we can all use a bit more data to see what we're dealing with.

This survey was born out of the fact that the polls at Cloud-buddy were incomplete. It is based on rbtwindude's post on VMTN in the (seemingly never ending) thread on vSphere 5 licensing (now just over 47 pages and north of 35k views). The activity is so high it even prompted a user to ask for help on how to unsubscribe.

UPDATE: Second round results available here (first round here). Also, check out the VMware Pricing and Packaging for VMware vSphere 5 webcast (there is an on-demand version of the one that was presented on Monday, or you can register for one of the remaining two).

UPDATE 2: Survey closed. Results below.

Without further ado, let's get on to the questions. Note that I've limited the choice of answer to one per question, though I realize that some may be running multiple clusters/farms as well as heterogenous environments (I have purposefully left it so that the survey can be filled more than once so that people can submit multiple times in these conditions). Please fill this out as best you can, and optionally fill out the remark section with your environment details (host details including make, model, installed RAM, etc).

* are mandatory fields.

Results based on 562 submissions (confidence level of 95% with 4.08% margin of error, statistics buffs please correct me if I'm wrong). The percentages haven't changed very much since the first two rounds of results, so having a larger sample size just reduced our margin of error.

Which VMware version are you currently running?

Under which VMware architecture?

VMware Edition?

Was a VMWare virtualization project planned before the new vSphere 5 licensing scheme announcement?

Did the new license (vRAM entitlement) change your mind on upgrading to vSphere 5?

Have you already bought new bigger and better hardware for your planned vSphere 5 deployment?

Do you think that the new license (vRAM entitlement) will affect your current or future VMware plans?

Has this new licensing scheme changed your mind to consider another virtualization platform?

Which hypervisor are you considering or are currently evaluating based on this announcement?

Do you still have plans to move forward with vSphere 5 or have you put your project on hold?

Number of licenses

For those who did submit the number of licenses in use, the total per edition is listed below. Do note that two submissions totaled 45000 Enterprise Plus licenses.