We are building a multi-tenanted hosting environment with a view to expanding it to a public cloud offering for SMEs.
As per VMware best practice we have separated the "Management Cluster" from the "Resource Cluster" so that management of the environment has no affect on the resources made available to customers.
Management VMs are used to manage and monitor the Resource Cluster and include VMs that perform tasks such as automated call logging, remote access, DC functions, a SQL server, VCOPS, VCUM and a number of other management machines.
VMs in the Resource Cluster are purely for customer consumption and therefore fall under the VSPP licensing scheme.
Are the servers in the Management Cluster (which are only accessed by our internal staff) subject to VSPP licensing or are these able to be run on perpetual licenses?