Hi, starting with the new licensing model there is NO memory limit (nor vRAM) for any paid edition of vSphere! so you can safely go for 128GB RAM with your Essentials edition. No reason for t...
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Hi, starting with the new licensing model there is NO memory limit (nor vRAM) for any paid edition of vSphere! so you can safely go for 128GB RAM with your Essentials edition. No reason for talking about vRAM pooling anymore .... (Same applies for free ESXi 5.5 hypervisor) vRAM Policy Effective August 27, 2012, VMware is eliminating the vRAM restriction on licenses to VMware vSphere. The removal of the vRAM limit from VMware vSphere licenses applies retroactively to any past and existing users of VMware vSphere, in addition to any new users of VMware vSphere. This new policy replaces and supersedes any conflicting terms in any license agreement previously agreed upon between VMware and any licensee of VMware vSphere. This change does not apply to VMware vSphere users under the VMware Service Provider Program. For details see also Licensing & Pricing whitepaper: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf Q: Does the new vSphere 5 licensing model—per-processor without limitation on the number of virtual machines, cores or amount of physical RAM—apply to vSphere 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5? A: Yes. The vSphere 5 licensing model applies to vSphere 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 customers. This also applies to vSphere with Operations Management customers. Regards, P.