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Pricing and Packaging for VMware vSphere 5

Timothy Stephan, Senior Director, vSphere Product Marketing, VMware

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vSphere vSphere vSphere

vCloud Director

vShield Security

vCenter Management

On July 12, VMware Introduced a Major Upgradeof the Entire Cloud Infrastructure Stack

vCloud Director 1.5

vShield 5

vCenter SRM 5

vSphere 5vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0

Cloud Infrastructure Launch(vSphere, vCenter, vShield, vCloud Director)

New

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vSphere 5 Licensing and PricingOverview

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vSphere 5 Licensing: Evolution Without Disruption

vSphere 4.x vSphere 5

Licensing Unit Processor = Processor

Core per proc Restricted < Unlimited

Physical RAMper host Restricted < Unlimited

Pooled vRAMentitlement NA

Amt of vRAM pooled

across entireenvironment

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What is vRAM?

vRAM is the memory configured to a virtual machine

Assigning a certain amount of vRAM is a required step in thecreation of a virtual machine

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Key vRAM Concepts

Pooled vRAM Entitlement

Each vSphere 5 processor license comes with a certain

amount of vRAM entitlement

Sum of allprocessor license

entitlementsConsumed vRAM

Sum of vRAMconfigured into allpowered on VMs

1

2

3

Compliance = 12 month rolling average of Consumed vRAM < Pooled vRAM Entitlement

4

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Key Concepts Example

Host A

1 1

vSphere Ent

1 1

vSphere Ent

CPU CPU CPU CPU

Host B

64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB

vRAM Pool (256GB)

Consumed vRAM = 80 GB

4 licenses of vSphereEnterprise Edition

provide a vRAM pool of

256GB (4 * 64 GB)

Customer creates20 VMs with 4GB

vRAM each

Each vSphere EnterpriseEdition license entitles

64GB of vRAM.

Compliance = 12 month rolling average of Consumed vRAM < Pooled vRAM Entitlement

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vSphere 5 LicensingDetail

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Updated 8/3/11 vSphere 5 Licensing Model in More Detail

vSphere 4.1 and priorPer CPU with Core and Physical

Memory Limits

vSphere 5 and laterPer CPU with

vRAM Entitlements

Licensing Unit CPU = CPU

SnS Unit CPU = CPU

Core per procRestrictions by vSphere editions 6 cores for Standard and Enterprise, Ess, Ess+ 12 core for Advanced and Ent. Plus

< Unlimited

Physical RAM

capacity per host

Restrictions by vSphere edition 256GB for Standard, Advanced and Enterprise.

Ess, Ess+ Unlimited for Enterprise Plus

< Unlimited

vRAM entitlement perproc

Not applicable

Entitlement by vSphere edition 32GB vRAM for Essentials Kit 32GB vRAM for Essentials Plus Kit 32GB vRAM for Standard 64GB vRAM for Enterprise 96GB vRAM for Enterprise Plus

Pooling of entitlements Not applicable