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Table 3‑3. vCloud Suite 5.8 components that require a license (Continued)
Components Description
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Provides business continuity and disaster recovery
capabilities that help you plan, test, and perform recovery
of virtual machines between one site (the protected site)
and another site (the recovery site).
VMware vCloud Automation Center Provides functionality for deploying and provisioning of
business-relevant cloud services across private and public
clouds, physical infrastructure, hypervisors, and public
cloud providers.
vCloud Automation Center Enterprise includes
vCloud Automation Center Application Service that
automates application provisioning in the cloud including
deploying and configuring the application's components
and dependent middleware platform services on
infrastructure clouds.
Distributing the Processor Capacity of a vCloud Suite License
Each vCloud Suite license has a certain processor capacity that you can use to license multiple physical
processors on ESXi hosts where you run the vCloud Suite components. When you assign a vCloud Suite
license key to a host, the amount of processor capacity that is consumed is equal to the number of physical
processors on the host.
To license physical processor that run vCloud Suite components, you need to assign the ESXi hosts a
vCloud Suite license key with processor capacity that is sufficient to license all physical processors on the
host.
For example, to run vCloud Suite on two ESXi 5.x hosts that have four processors each, you need to assign
the hosts a vCloud Suite license key with a minimum capacity of eight processors.
You can assign and reassign the processor capacity of a vCloud Suite license key to any combination of ESXi
hosts. For example, suppose that you purchase a vCloud Suite license key for 10 processors. You can assign
the license key to any of the following combinations of hosts.
n
Five 2-processor hosts.
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Three 2-processor hosts and one 4-processor host.
n
Two 4-processor hosts and one 2-processor host.
n
One 8-processor host and one 2-processor host.
Dual-core and quad-core processors, such as Intel processors that combine two or four independent
processors on a single chip, count as one processor.
Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Web Client
You must assign the vCloud Suite license key to all suite components. For components that integrate with
the vSphere Web Client, you can use the license management option in the client.
NOTE The vCloud Suite 5.8 license is compatible with vCenter Server 5.1 and 5.5.
Add the vCloud Suite License in the vSphere Web Client
To assign the vCloud Suite license key to the suite components, you must add the key to the license
inventory of vCenter Server.
Prerequisites
Required privilege: Global.Licenses
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