what does VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise for 1 processor (with 64 GB vRAM entitlement per processor) means .

[vikrant_kamboj]

what does    VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise for 1 processor (with 64 GB vRAM entitlement per processor)     means .

[weinstein5]

That is the description of the old license model - when vSphere 5 was originally released you not were licensed per processor but also by the amount of vRAM that you  could access - VMware licensing is no longer done that way.

What are you looking at?

[vikrant_kamboj]

hi  weinstein ,

       I am looking for  buy a new licence of vsphere 5.5   so I am little bit confused  that how many vm I can run on vsphere enterprise   edition .

   In enterprise and enterprise plus edition  only  difference is  features or is there is any  VRAM  or VCPU  limitation with  enterprise and enterprise plus edition.

[weinstein5]

According to http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf - there are no limitations on physical resources -

[vikrant_kamboj]

the only thing is that there is  only       features difference .

[vikrant_kamboj]

what does     vSphere Enterprise      Supports 32-way vCPU entitlement

[weinstein5]

That is right - there is a difference in the vm configuration -

vSphere Enterprise  Supports 32-way vCPU entitlement, features all the capabilities of vSphere Standard plus Distributed Resource Scheduler, Distributed Power Management and Storage APIs for Array Integration/Multipathing.  32 way vCPU entitlement means you can have virtual machines with a maximum of 32 vCPUs.

vSphere Enterprise Plus 

Supports 64-way vCPU entitlement, features all the capabilities of vSphere Enterprise plus Distibuted Switch, Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage, I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV, and Host Profiles and Auto Deploy. 64 way vCPU entitlement means you can have virtual machines with a maximum of 64 vCPUs.

[vikrant_kamboj]

it means that if I am using a server with Two processor  and I am using  vsphere 5.5 enterprise edition I have a   64 vcpu   per host for configure VMs   am I right .

[weinstein5]

no - it means you can have a single VM with 64 vCPUs -

[admin]

in Vsphere 5 onward VMware has changed the vRAM entitlement per processor based, it was 48 GB earlier for Enterprise Edition and in VSphere 5 it is 64GB for Enterprise Edition. Fillips