Licencing

[sdewar83]

Hi,

I'm having a bit of trouble tracking down info on licencing....

We want to upgrade from free esxi to a paid version with decent functionality.

If we're to buy vsphere advanced/enterprise/enterprise plus.... how many esxi hosts can we install it on?   does it depend how many sockets we get licenced for?

So if we get licenced for 4 physical cpus.. we could install it on 2 esxi hosts with 2 physical cpus each?  or one esxi host with 4 cpus?  or 4 hosts with 1 cpu each?

Or do we get licenced for 4 physical cpus and we can install it on any number of hosts as long as they dont have more than 4cpus?  (Sounds less likely)

How confusing..

Cheers

Simon

[idle-jam · Accepted solution]

all goes by CPU socket. once you buy 4 CPU licences, you can have 4 x 1CPU server, or 2 x 2 CPU or 1 x 4 CPU. it does not tied you down. just remember standard, and enterprise only support 6 cores CPU only. if you need more you will need advance and enterprise plus ..

[sdewar83]

Thanks.

Also - AUD is worth more than US$ yet they're selling (for one example)  the vsphere advanced acceleration kit for $15,199 USD yet $22,000 or so AUD.

Can I just buy the kit from the US and pay USD for it and download it ??

Otherwise its like they want to charge me $8000 just for being australian or something..

Cheers

Simon

[idle-jam]

you might want to contact your aus. local rep. or local reseller, they might give you discounts .. 😃

[AndreTheGiant]

I also suggest to go though reseller or distributors.

They have a discount, so they can make a better price and payment conditions.

Andre

[hpreyers]

A colleague of mine has made a nice 'VMWare vSphere 4 - Editions Comparison' at http://www.virtualclouds.info/?p=1506