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vsphere 5 Licensing

Chi sono in quattro punti. Massimiliano Moschini Presales/Postsales and Trainer VMUG IT Board Member VCP, VSP VTSP,VCI, V http://it.linkedin.com/in/massimilianomoschini @maxmoschini

vsphere 5 licensing: Evolution Without Disruption vsphere 4.x vsphere 5 Licensing Unit Processor = Processor! Core per proc Restricted < Unlimited Physical RAM Restricted < Unlimited per host Amt of vram pooled Pooled vram NA across entire entitlement environment

What is vram? vram is the memory configured to a virtual machine Assigning a certain amount of vram is a required step in the creation of a virtual machine

Key vram Concepts 1 Each vsphere 5 processor license comes with certain amount of vram entitlement 2 3 Pooled vram Entitlement Consumed vram Sum of all processor license entitlements Sum of vram configured into all powered on VMs MAX 96 GB 4 Compliance = 12 month rolling average of Consumed vram < Pooled vram Entitlement

Desktop Virtualization with vsphere 5 vsphere Desktop - NEW edition for VDI deployments Can only be used for desktop virtualization New purchases only Licensed on a total number of Powered On desktop virtual machines Sold in pack size of 100 at a list price of $6,500 USD Unlimited vram entitlements All features and functionalities of vsphere Enterprise Plus Existing VDI Customers vsphere licenses with active SnS and used for VDI may be upgraded to corresponding vsphere 5.0 edition and have unlimited vram entitlement Must be managed by different instance of vcenter Server VMware View Comprehensive end to end Desktop Virtualization Solution Available as View Enterprise and View Premier

vsphere 5 Packaging and Pricing

vsphere 5 Editions ` New in vsphere 5.0 Essentials Essentials Plus Essentials Standard Advanced Standard Enterprise Plus Enterprise Plus Price per proc (license only) 79* 712* 958 2.766 3.366 vram Entitlement per proc 32 GB 32GB 32 GB 64 GB 96 GB vcpu 8 way 8 way 8 way 8 way 32 way Features Hypervisor High Availability Data Recovery vmotion Virtual Serial Port Concentrator Hot Add vshield Zones Fault Tolerance Storage APIs for Array Integration Storage vmotion Distribute Resource Scheduler & Distributed Power Management Distributed Switch I/O Controls (Network and Storage) Host Profiles Auto deploy Profile-Driven Storage Storage DRS Essentials + vsphere Storage Appliance 7.699 All editions include: Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage APIs for Data Protection, Image Profile, and SLES (except Ess and Ess +)

vsphere 5 Acceleration Kits ` New in vsphere 5.0 Essentials Essentials Plus Standard Standard AK Enterprise Enterprise AK Enterprise Plus Plus AK Price per proc (license only) 477 4.329 9.625 16.853 21.133 Includes 6 CPUs 6 CPUs 8 CPUs 6 CPUs 6 CPUs Entitlements per CPU license vram Entitlement 32 GB (192 GB max) 32 GB (192 GB max) 32 GB (256GB per kit) 64 GB (384 per kit) 96 GB (576 per kit) vcpu 8 way 8 way 8 way 8 way 32 way Features Hypervisor High Availability Data Recovery vmotion Virtual Serial Port Concentrator Hot Add vshield Zones Fault Tolerance Storage APIs for Array Integration Storage vmotion Distribute Resource Scheduler & Distributed Power Management Distributed Switch I/O Controls (Network and Storage) Host Profiles Auto deploy Profile-Driven Storage Storage DRS All editions include: Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage APIs for Data Protection, Image Profile, and SLES (except Ess and Ess +)

Key concepts - Example Each vsphere Enterprise Edition license entitles to 64GB of vram. vram Pool (256GB) Consumed vram = 80 GB 64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB 4 licenses of vsphere Enterprise Edition provide a vram pool of 256GB (4 * 64 GB) Customer creates 20 VMs with 4GB vram each vsphere Ent 1 1 vsphere Ent 1 1 CPU CPU CPU CPU Host A Host B Compliance = 12 month rolling average of Consumed vram < Pooled vram Entitlement

Entitlement Paths for current vsphere 4.x customers vsphere 4.x vsphere 5.0 Enterprise Plus Enterprise Plus Enterprise Enterprise Advanced Standard Standard Essentials Plus Essentials Plus Essentials Essentials

Upgrade Paths for vsphere Editions and Kits Enterprise Enterprise Plus Enterprise Plus Standard Enterprise Essentials Plus Any one of the Acceleration Kits Any one of the Acceleration Kits Essentials Essentials Plus

vram a CPU Prodotto Costo a Processore vram in dote Note ESXi Free 0 32 GB Max 32 GB RAM Essential (vcenter incl.) 80 32 GB Max 192 vram Essential Plus (vcenter incl.) 712 32 GB Max 192 vram Standard 958 32 GB Enterprise 2766 64 GB Enterprise Plus 3366 96 GB

Quanto costa la vram al Kilo? Prodotto Costo a Processore Costo 1GB di vram ESXi Free 0 0 Note Max 32 GB RAM Essential (vcenter incl.) 80 2,5 Max 192 vram Essential Plus (vcenter incl.) 712 22,25 Standard 958 29,93 Enterprise 2766 43,22 Enterprise Plus 3366 35,06 Max 192 vram

Pro Sparisce il vincolo del numero di core per CPU Chi ha la licenza Advanced passa alla Enterprise (attenzione alle manutenzioni!) Su tutte le versioni si hanno VM con 8 vcpu E palese che le VM costano Il dimensionamento delle VM diventa un attività fondamentale Ci vuole un tecnico per fare un offerta ;-), design, design, design! La vram non è per host ma per pool di host gestiti dalla stesso vcenter (ma solo per versioni omogenee), vcenter in Linked Mode = unico pool!

Contro Vincoli delle versioni Essential sono bloccanti e non superabili Occorre fare bene i conti per chi ha server con molta RAM o con forte rateo di consolidamento Per fare una quotazione non bastano più le sole info sui server fisici Gli AK sono cambiati (tutti hanno il vcenter Standard, ma la versione con Enterprise plus passa da 8 a 6 CPU Se uno è bravo a sfruttare la RAM fisica non ha nessun vantaggio, anzi Le novità importanti sono state portate solo sulla Enterprise Plus Nessuna feature è stata declassata Gli appliance virtuali di gestione (vcenter, Data Recovery, vshield, vsa, ecc) pesano sul licensing! Storage Appliance si paga a parte

Risorse Guida al licensing http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf vsphere Licensing Advisor