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VMware vSphere 5
SnSisrequiredforallvSpherepurchases
VMware vSphere and
vCenter Server Packaging
VMware oers several packaging options designed for a wide
variety of deployment scenarios and customer types
VMware vSphere Editions
VMware vSphere Editions oer dierent combinations of functionality
and vRAM entitlements at dierent price points, providing a simple
path for customers to license VMware vSphere to meet their specific
requirements for scalability, size of environment, and use cases
(see Figure 2). A Support and Subscription (SnS) contract is
required for every VMware vSphere Edition purchase.
For information on local currency prices for vSphere Editions and
Kits visit: www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/pricing.html
Increasing the pooled vRAM capacity
Users can increase vRAM Capacity in three ways:
 AddingnewvSpherelicensesofthesameedition
totheexistingpool
 Upgradinglicensestoaneditionwithahigher
vRAMentitlement
 AddinganewhostwithnewvSpherelicensesof
thesameeditionoftheexistingpool
In the example, the user adds a new host with a single CPU with 8
cores. The user purchases an additional license of VMware vSphere
Enterprise. The additional license raises the vRAM capacity by another
64GBtoatotalof320GB.Theuseradds8virtualmachinesthat
have 8GB of vRAM each on the new host.
Hosts 3
CPUs 5
VMware vSphere licenses 5
vRAM capacity 320GB
vRAM used
264GB (200GB + (8 virtual machines x 8GB/
virtual machine))
Later, the user wants to further increase the capacity of the
vRAM pool by 100GB to allow for future growth without adding
any additional options. The user has two options to increase the
vRAM capacity:
•BuytwoadditionalVMwarevSpherelicensesofthesameedition,
Enterprise. This would raise the vRAM capacity by 128GB.
•UpgradeallveVMwarevSpherelicensestoaneditionwitha
higher vRAM entitlement. Each license of Enterprise Plus is
entitled to 96GB of vRAM. Upgrading to Enterprise Plus would
yield a new total vRAM capacity of 480GB.
Figure 2. vSphere 5 Editions Lineup
*New in vSphere 5.0
Standard
32 GB
8 way
Enterprise
64 GB
8 way
Enterprise
Plus
96 GB
32 way
Entitlements per CPU license
• vRAM Entitlement
• vCPU/VM
Features
• Hypervisor
• High Availability
• Data Recovery
• vMotion
• Virtual Serial Port Concentrator
• Hot Add
• vShield Zones
• Fault Tolerance
• Storage APIs for Array Integration
• Storage vMotion
• Distributed Resource Scheduler
& Distributed Power Management
• Distributed Switch
• I/O Controls (Network and Storage)
• Host Profiles
• Auto Deploy*
• Policy-Driven Storage*
• Storage DRS*