NSX Licence

[Felix001]

Based on the an NSX 6 CPU license. As per https://www.vmug.com/Join//EVALExperience, is this based on the number of CPUs upon the physical host running my vCenter? And if so, if I have more CPUs on the system, does it just limit the remainder?

Also I want to ensure that the CPUs taken into account arent vCPUs, i.e so that the NSX Manager and Controllers arent also counted.

Thanks,

[erikverbruggen]

The CPU license is per physical socket. A host with two physical CPU's will need two licenses. I'm not sure with will happen if you run out of licenses but I expect it to be a soft limit, NSX functionality will not be impacted.

[rajeevsrikant]

In the management cluster if you are not going to use NSX features like VXLAN & DFW it is fine not to license the Management cluster with NSX.

You will be having only the NSX Manager & the NSX controllers in this management cluster.

It is fine to deploy NSX Manager and NSX Controllers on Management Cluster as long as you don't need NSX features (VXLAN, DFW) on the Management Cluster.

It will be a soft limit & none of your services will be impacted.