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Licensing
The components of a vCloud Suite edition are activated by using a single licence. You can perform the
activation of all components by using the vSphere Web Client or the licensing interfaces of individual
products.
vCloud Suite Licensing Model
VMware vCloud Suite 5.8 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-defined data center services, policy-based provisioning, disaster recovery, application
management, and operations management.
A vCloud Suite 5.8 edition combines components such as vSphere Enterprise Plus, vCloud Director,
vCloud Networking and Security, and others, under a single license. vCloud Suite editions are licensed on a
per-processor basis. Many of the vCloud Suite components are also available as standalone products
licensed on a per-virtual machine basis. However, when these components are obtained through the
vCloud Suite, they are licensed on a per-processor basis.
The components from a vCloud Suite edition are activated with a single license key. For example, if you
have a license key for vCloud Suite 5.8 Standard, you can use the same key to activate vSphere Enterprise
Plus, vCloud Director, vCloud Networking and Security, and so on.
All virtual machines running on a processor licensed with a vCloud Suite edition can use all components
included in that vCloud Suite edition. To run virtual machines on processors that are not licensed for
vCloud Suite, you need individual licenses for the products that you want to use.
vCloud Suite Licenseable Components
The different vCloud Suite 5.8 editions include different sets of components. You must assign the
vCloud Suite license to all components in your vCloud Suite edition.
The following vCloud Suite components correspond to vCloud Suite 5.8 Enterprise edition.
Table 3‑3. vCloud Suite 5.8 components that require a license
Components Description
VMware vSphere Provides virtualization technology to serve as the platform
for cloud infrastructure.
VMware vCloud
®
Director Provides the ability to build secure, multi-tenant clouds by
pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual
datacenters.
VMware vCloud Networking and Security Provides a security suite for VMware vSphere.
vCloud Networking and Security (formerly vShield) is a
critical security component for protecting virtualized
datacenters from attacks and misuse to help you achieve
your compliance-mandated goals.
VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite Automates operations management and provides
integrated performance, capacity, and configuration
management for virtualized and cloud infrastructure.
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