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Licensing for Clusters with Enabled Virtual SAN
After you enable Virtual SAN on a cluster, you must assign the cluster an appropriate Virtual SAN license.
Just like vSphere licenses, Virtual SAN licenses have per CPU capacity. When you assign a Virtual SAN
license to a cluster, the amount of license capacity that is used equals the total number of CPUs in the hosts
that participate in the cluster. For example, if you have a Virtual SAN cluster that contains 4 hosts with 8
CPUs each, you need to assign the cluster a Virtual SAN license with a minimum capacity of 32 CPUs.
The license usage of the Virtual SAN cluster is recalculated and updated in one of the following cases:
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If you assign a new license to the Virtual SAN cluster.
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If you add a new host to the Virtual SAN cluster.
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If a host is removed from the cluster.
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If the total number of CPUs in a cluster changes.
You must maintain the Virtual SAN clusters in compliance with the Virtual SAN licensing model. The total
number of CPUs of all hosts in the cluster must not exceed the capacity of the Virtual SAN license that is
assigned to the cluster.
License and Evaluation Period Expiry
When the license or the evaluation period of a Virtual SAN expires, you can continue to use the currently
congured Virtual SAN resources and features. However, you cannot add SSD or HDD capacity to an
existing disk group or create new disk groups.
Virtual SAN for Desktop
Virtual SAN for Desktop is intended for use in VDI environments, such as vSphere for Desktop or
Horizon™ View™. The license usage for Virtual SAN for Desktop equals the total number of powered on
VMs in a cluster with enabled Virtual SAN.
To remain EULA compliant, the license usage for Virtual SAN for Desktop must not exceed the license
capacity. The number of powered on desktop VMs in a Virtual SAN cluster must be less than or equal to the
license capacity of Virtual SAN for Desktop.
Suite Licensing
Suite products combine multiple components to provide a certain set of capabilities. Suite products have a
single license that you can assign to all suite components. When participating in a suite, suite components
have dierent licensing models than their standalone versions. Examples of suite products are vCloud Suite
and vSphere with Operations Management.
Licensing for VMware vCloud
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Suite combines multiple components into a single product to cover the complete set of
cloud infrastructure capabilities. When used together, the vCloud Suite components provide virtualization,
software-dened data center services, policy-based provisioning, disaster recovery, application
management, and operations management.
A vCloud Suite edition combines components such as vSphere, vCloud Director, vCloud Networking and
Security, and others, under a single license. vCloud Suite editions are licensed on per-CPU basis. Many of
the vCloud Suite components are also available as standalone products licensed on per-virtual machine
basis. However, when these components are obtained through vCloud Suite, they are licensed on per-CPU
basis.
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