Licensing Info

[lottosaimo]

Hi All,

I have 4 hosts

- Two with 48 cores

- Two with 24 cores

In the firs to I'm planning to have a VM with 32 vCores and several others with 4 or les cores. Those four hosts will be managed by a vCenter for vMotion and HA. Does the license of the vSphere be the same ( 4 Enterprise Plus) so i can move VM beetween hosts?

Regards

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Saimo

[Troy_Clavell]

all 4 Hosts will need Enterprise Plus

[a_p_]

Rather than to license hosts, VMware licenses physical processor sockets, so if these hosts have e.g. 2 processors each, you will need 8 licenses.

André

[lottosaimo]

Thanx guys.

I have

2 host with 4cpu x 6 cores + hyperthreading

2 host with 2cpu x 6 cores + hyperthreading

I was thinking to licese some with vSphere Enterprise Plus (so to make use of 32 way) some with Enterprise.

Can the virtual machines be managed by a signle vCenter if they are with different licenses?

Regards

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Saimo

[admin]

Where are your vRAM calculations?

[lottosaimo]

256Gig Ram per host

Max VRAM Allocation 95%

Regards

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Saimo

[admin]

I'm not getting your 95 percentile calculation?

[lottosaimo]

for now it doesn't matter how MANY.

I was thinking to licese some with vSphere Enterprise Plus (so to make use of 32 way) some with Enterprise.

Can the virtual machines be managed by a SINGLE vCenter if they are with different licenses?

Regards

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Saimo

[schepp · Accepted solution]

Hi,

yes you can manage different licensed hosts with a single vCenter Server.

But you will have another problem during the licensing: the vRAM Entitlement.

As shown here: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

If you buy 4 Enterprise Licenses per host with 4 CPU you're good to go since you can use all of your 265GB RAM (4 x 64GB per license)

But the hosts with only 2 CPUs will only be able to 192GB RAM if you buy two Enterprise plus licenses for them.

Regards

[admin]

Hence my question on percentile - to help determine an accurate licence model.