Vsphere 4 licensing

[sultanad]

I need to know what licensing I will need for the following? Both esx or esxi and vsphere license on vsphere 4.0

Need to have HA, DRS, vMotion, storage vMotion

A cluster of 4 physical severs with 2 CPUs, quad core and 36GB ram

If I can get away with esxi in a cluster of four that would be great

[kooltechies · Accepted solution]

Look at this for the features , this is for vSphere5 but apart from vRAM licensing model most of the things are same. So you will need minimum Enterprise Licensing.

[Lee_Sargeant]

Hi,

To make use of this you will need 8 Enterprise processor licenses for vSphere.  You can currently only purchase for version 5 as far as I am aware but these can be downgraded to version 4.  These licenses will run work on both ESXi or ESX.

Also in order to utilise HA, DRS, vMotion and Storage vMotion you will need a vCenter Server Standard license and server (this can be virtual or physical) as this is what is needed to create and manage vSphere clusters.

Hope this helps,

Lee

[sultanad]

What about the esx licence? Can I get away with using esxi rather than esx standard license?

[Lee_Sargeant]

The vSphere Enterprise license will work on either ESX or ESXi.  Moving forward from version 4 there is no ESX so it may be worth looking at going straight to ESXi.  Functionally there is no difference.

[vGrade]

You can use www.vgrade.org for licensing calculation.

[abirhasan]

Here is a simple vmware lisencing calculations. Have a look...

http://www.virtualvcp.com/download-tools/164-simple-vmware-vsphere-4-a-5-license-calculator

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