VMware has all rights to change licensing in the future.įor starters, the following are some of the salient aspects you will need to remember: Note: All details that follows is as of 1 July 2016. VSphere for Desktop is a license to run “VDI and related” workloads. I thought it will be a good idea to document some of the clarifications that was needed. Last week, two of Singapore’s biggest FSI customers contacted me on exactly this. If you plan on deploying vSAN clusters in a vSphere environment converted to subscription, you can either continue to use vSAN license keys or purchase a VMware vSAN+™ subscription in addition to the vSphere+ subscription.There has not been a single week at VMware so far that I have not been asked to clarify vSphere for Desktop licensing. VMware vSphere+™ is a workload platform that allows you to shift from license based management to a pay-as-you-expand subscription model. Once you configure a vSphere cluster for vSphere with Tanzu and it becomes a Supervisor Cluster, you must assign the cluster a Tanzu edition license before the 60 day evaluation period expires. Licensing for Clusters with vSAN EnabledĪfter you enable vSAN on a cluster, you must assign the cluster an appropriate vSAN license.VCenter Server systems are licensed with vCenter Server licenses that have per-instance capacity. Each vSphere license has a certain capacity that you can use to license multiple physical CPUs on ESXi hosts.
You can also convert your on-premises vSphere infrastructure to subscription by purchasing vSphere+ and vSAN+ subscriptions.ĮSXi hosts are licensed with vSphere licenses. To apply their licensing models correctly, you must understand how the associated assets consume the license capacity. ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, vSAN clusters, and Supervisor Clusters are licensed differently.
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