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VMware has decided to kill vCenter AppSpeed, no new licenses will be sold after January 3rd, 2012. Support for existing licenses will continue until September 15th, 2012. Official notification of EOA and ESL is available at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2010764 which I will quote briefly:

We want to provide you with an important update about the VMware® vCenter AppSpeed™ product. As customers continue to expand the use of virtualization and cloud resources, we are focusing on delivering management solutions that can support the flexibility that enterprises require. As a result of this focus, we have decided not to produce additional releases of vCenter AppSpeed. vCenter AppSpeed will be end of availability for new license purchases as of January 3, 2012, however it will continue to be supported through September15, 2012, in line with our General Support Policy.

I was suspecting that AppSpeed has been killed off since there has not been any updates to it in a long time and latest vSphere version it is officially compatible is vSphere 4.0 U2.

I don’t know how many customers actually implemented AppSpeed on their infrastructure, but when I did the hands on lab in VMworld 2009 I was quite impressed by the product. In real life though it may have been that limited support for applications it could monitor was not enough to spark the customers interest in product.