So I'm a bit confused, there were reports that the announcement today uped the vRAM allocation on the free version of ESXi from 8 GB to 32 GB, which is good.
http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/2011/08/vmware-vsphere-5-licensing-and-pricing-update.html
But according to the FAQ (which looks like it was updated), vRAM is *still* at 8 GB per processor, and the physical host is limited to 32 GB of RAM?
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html
Interesting!
From the current (official) http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf
vSphere Hypervisor is entitled to 32GB of vRAM per server (regardless of the number of processors) and can be utilized on servers with up to 32GB of physical RAM.
André
Hopefully that clinches it. 32 GB is reasonable for the free version, although I would say it'll be reasonable for about 18 months. After that, it'll be unreasonable.
Question about Free version.
1. If I have a host with 1 pCPU can I start a VM with more than 8 GB?
2. If the host can support 64 GB will free version only see 32 GB?
Thanks!
The limit is indeed 32GB as announced yesterday, all web pages should reflect this change soon.
Duncan
OK, just checked the FAQ. It now states the 32 GB vRAM allotment.
Its not 32GB vRAM allotment, its 32GB physical RAM for the free license. Its as much vRAM as you can configure into your 32GB (or less) physical RAM.
So if you have a really friendly workload, you could configure 100GB of vRAM on the free license.
I thought both pRAM and vRAM are limited to 32GB :smileyconfused:
Matt wrote:
Its not 32GB vRAM allotment, its 32GB physical RAM for the free license. Its as much vRAM as you can configure into your 32GB (or less) physical RAM.
So if you have a really friendly workload, you could configure 100GB of vRAM on the free license.
It seems to be both an physical limit and a vRAM limit of 32 GB of RAM: http://rickardnobel.se/archives/737
Interesting - thats not what i was told by the VMware licensing team personally. Will investigate further.