July 15, 2011

VMware vSphere 5 ReleaseLicense Changes

Agenda

Understanding the Key Driver for Licensing Change

vSphere 5: Licensing Changes Edition Consolidation and Upgrade Rights vRAM Definition and Entitlements

vSphere 4: Staying Put Downgrade Rights VMware Support Model

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Understanding the Key Driver for Licensing Change

Moore’s Law states the number of transistors will double every two years

RAM moving forward will be a better indicator of the number of VMs running on a host

Customers can now leverage advanced CPU capacity

vSphere 4.x vSphere 5.0

Enterprise Plus

Enterprise

Advanced

Standard

Essentials Plus

Essentials

Enterprise Plus

Enterprise

Standard

Essentials Plus

Essentials

vSphere 5: License Changes Edition Consolidation

A transferable, virtualization-based entitlement of RAM

When a VM is powered on the vRAM configured for that virtual machine counts against the total vRAM

vSphere 5.0-CPU license editions provide a certain vRAM capacity

vSphere 5: License Changes vRAM Pool Definition

32GB 32GB 32GB 32GBvRAM Pool

Host A

1 1

vSphere Ent

1 1

vSphere Ent

CPU CPU CPU CPU

Host B

VMware vCenter Server

vRAM ≠ physical RAM

vSphere 5: License Changes vRAM Entitlements by Edition

vSphere 5: License Changes Example Enterprise Configuration

• No limit on the number of VMs• Maximum memory allocated to the VMs is limited• To see more vRAM than allowed in processor licenses:• Add more processor licenses• Upgrade Versions

EnterpriseCPU

EnterpriseCPU

EnterpriseCPU

EnterpriseCPU

32GB vRAM

32GB vRAM

32GB vRAM

32GB vRAM

= =

Comparing Versions

vSphere 4: Staying Put Downgrade Rights and Support Model

Only the vSphere 5 SKU will be available on the Q3 2011 release

vSphere 5 licenses include the right to downgrade one version

VMware supports two versions back so vSphere 4 support will be available

In Summary Get an understanding of the amount of RAM you

have allocated to VMs Leverage the free 60-day evaluation of vCenter

Operations Manager to help gather the information

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Top 10 Q&As from the webinar

Q: How am I compliant with this licensing model? Is there a “hard stop” at my vRAM limit?

A: To be compliant, allocated vRAM must be equal to or less than the available pooled vRAM Entitlement. VMware vCenter Server will not impose a hard limit on consumed vRAM, but will provide alerts that consumed vRAM is approaching or has surpassed available pooled capacity.

Q: If you are not RAM-constrained, is it possible to license fewer CPU's than you are using?

A: No it’s required to license every single processor on your virtualized host.

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Q: Is there a cost saving upgrade path from V4 to V5?

A: As long as you have active Support and Subscription (SnS) there is no cost to upgrade from version 4 to version 5. If you have expired SnS then you’ll need to get that current to upgrade.

Q: Does powered off virtual machines count towards the vRAM total?

A: No powered off VMs contribute their allocated vRAM back to the overall vRAM Entitlement Pool.

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Q: Is the new licensing model having RAM limit per processor or per core?

A: In vSphere 5 there is no limit on the amount of cores per processor or the RAM a customer can install. So long as the processors are licensed and the customer stays within the vRAM Entitlement they are compliant.

Q: Is vRAM counted on a per host basis, or is it the total of all vRAM across the whole cluster?

A: The vRAM entitlements of vSphere CPU licenses are pooled—that is, aggregated—across all CPU licenses managed by a VMware vCenter instance (or multiple linked VMware vCenter instances) to form a total available vRAM capacity (pooled vRAMcapacity). At any given point in time, the vRAM capacity consumed by all powered-on virtual machines within a pool must be equal or lower than the pooled vRAM capacity.

Top 10 Q&As

Q: What if I have multiple clusters?

A: As long as the total consumed vRAM across all virtual machines managed by a VMware vCenterinstance or multiple linked VMware vCenter instances is less orequal to the total available vRAM, vSphere is correctly licensed.

Q. How does this affect VMware View licensing?

A: For VDI Implementations nothing changes for View. It will still be licensed per concurrent user. If you are using VMware for the hypervisor layer of another VDI solution, VMware has released a licensing model for vSphere for Desktops link can be found here: http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2011/07/vsphere-desktop-licensing-overview.html

Top 10 Q&As

Q. We are using vSphere 4 with advanced license. We can continue to use until upgrading to 5, where we will be entitled for Enterprise, correct?

A: Correct, so long as you have active Support and Subscription you can upgrade to vSphere 5 Enterprise from vSphere 4 Advanced at no additional cost.

Q: I read something about having to run ESXi with vSphere 5. Will I need to run ESXi or can I stay with my ESX installs?

A: You’ve heard correctly. ESXi is the only hypervisor supported with vSphere 5.

Top 10 Q&As

A Final Note

We received several very specific questions that are not outlined in this presentation. We would be glad to answer these questions in one-on-one meetings. Please contact us at vmware@softchoice.com to book an appointment and speak with one of our representatives.

If you would like to dig deeper into the changes and how they might affect your business , we recommend that your read Understanding the vSphere5 vRAM Licensing Model, from VMware .

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