vCAC licensing scheme

[SASVenus]

Hello,

I'm trying to understand the licensing scheme for vCAC product. To start with we have vCloud suite (which includes a bundle of products incl vCAC, vCD and many more) and as part of the purchase, we have license for 2 hosts.

We have set up a cluster with two hosts and have applied the license to it. We are also planning to include Citrix Xen as one other hypservisor along with VMware ESXi and Amazon EC2 service. But in order to include Citrix, do we need to buy additional license for the host running Citrix Xen or will it work without the license? What about AWS? Do we need to buy additional license to include/configure AWS with vCAC?

Thanks in advance for your reply

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[christianpg]

Been wondering about the same...

If I got this right, vCAC 5.2 is offered in two flavors: bundled with vCloud Suite Enterprise ( http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcloud-suite/compare.html ) or as  vCAC Standalone ( http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcloud-automation-center/buy.html ). vCloud Suite Enterprise edition uses the per-CPU license model and is mainly integrating with your vCloud environment. Standalone edition uses the OSI-pack (Operating System Instance) license model and offers all available integration points ( http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcac-52-support-matrix.pdf ) So...AFAIK, Citrix Xen and Amazon EC2 requires the standalone edition.

BTW: Asked VMware if the OSI-packs are enforcing a strict upper limit on the amount of managed instances and got the following response: "The license enforcement is soft. The true up is done by creating a report that averages machine usage over a 90 day period. "

@Community, please correct me if I'm wrong

Also very interested in any rumors regarding changes to the license model with the next release (guessing version 5.3 in Q4-2013 in-synch with VMworld 2013 ???)

[christianpg]

...and the vCloud Suite 5.5 release will bundle a vCAC version with all editions, but with what feature-set is yet unknown.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-suite/compare.html

http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-automation-center/compare.html