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    <title>topic Re: Does a powered off guest consume a ROBO license? in vSphere Hypervisor Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;License counts per deployed virtual machine regardless of the power state of the virtual machines. 25 means 25.&lt;BR /&gt;If you are unshure about the licensing terms&amp;amp;conditions you can always have it confirmed by the official vmware support.&lt;BR /&gt;Just open a non-technical support request. They will also provide the current EULAs for the product to you.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="https://customerconnect.vmware.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://customerconnect.vmware.com/support&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2023 08:50:12 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>WuGeDe</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2023-07-07T08:50:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Does a powered off guest consume a ROBO license?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Hypervisor-Discussions/Does-a-powered-off-guest-consume-a-ROBO-license/m-p/2972036#M7522</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;As the title says, I've been asked by a customer whether a powered-off guest consumes one of their 25 available licenses?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I cannot find a definitive answer so if anyone has an official document/article to back any answer up that would help tremendously.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 10:33:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>northerner01</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-06-07T10:33:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Does a powered off guest consume a ROBO license?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Hypervisor-Discussions/Does-a-powered-off-guest-consume-a-ROBO-license/m-p/2972208#M7526</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The answer is:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;The license key keeps track of how many&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;EM&gt;powered on&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;virtual machines you have based on the ROBO license key applied to each host.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;please see the below document:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;A href="http://burdweiser.com/vmware-robo-license-usage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;http://burdweiser.com/vmware-robo-license-usage/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;There are three main licensing models for vSphere:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL class=""&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Per CPU licensing that covers one CPU with up to 32 cores.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Per virtual machine licensing.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Subscription based licensing&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;Check the below document for "Per Virtual Machine Licensing Model for vSphere"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-vcenter-esxi-management/GUID-710CD935-DBF4-4AF6-A4F7-ED35E552DE4C.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-vcenter-esxi-management/GUID-710CD935-DBF4-4AF6-A4F7-ED35E552DE4C.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:56:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sachchidanand</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-06-08T06:56:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Does a powered off guest consume a ROBO license?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Hypervisor-Discussions/Does-a-powered-off-guest-consume-a-ROBO-license/m-p/2973202#M7540</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks but an external article from 8 years ago isn't authoritative enough in this case.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Nor does the second link answer the question in any way as far as I can see.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It is a very specific question about a very specific use case. Do powered down machines consume a&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;ROBO&lt;/STRONG&gt; license?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:46:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>northerner01</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-06-15T09:46:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Does a powered off guest consume a ROBO license?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Hypervisor-Discussions/Does-a-powered-off-guest-consume-a-ROBO-license/m-p/2973358#M7541</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;ROBO licensing is based on a per-virtual machine license model and as per definition of per virtual machine license, these are used for powered on vm.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I hope this clarifies your query.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sachchidanand&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 06:27:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sachchidanand</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-06-16T06:27:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Does a powered off guest consume a ROBO license?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Hypervisor-Discussions/Does-a-powered-off-guest-consume-a-ROBO-license/m-p/2975987#M7582</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;License counts per deployed virtual machine regardless of the power state of the virtual machines. 25 means 25.&lt;BR /&gt;If you are unshure about the licensing terms&amp;amp;conditions you can always have it confirmed by the official vmware support.&lt;BR /&gt;Just open a non-technical support request. They will also provide the current EULAs for the product to you.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="https://customerconnect.vmware.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://customerconnect.vmware.com/support&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2023 08:50:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>WuGeDe</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-07-07T08:50:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Does a powered off guest consume a ROBO license?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Hypervisor-Discussions/Does-a-powered-off-guest-consume-a-ROBO-license/m-p/2975988#M7583</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks but that's contradictory to what I was told by a vmware representative - powered VM's only. If a guest is off, it does NOT consume a license.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:19:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>northerner01</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-07-06T08:19:48Z</dc:date>
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