6.5.1

Licensing for Clusters with Enabled vSAN
After you enable vSAN on a cluster, you must assign the cluster an appropriate vSAN license.
Similar to vSphere licenses, vSAN licenses have per CPU capacity. When you assign a vSAN license to a
cluster, the amount of license capacity used equals the total number of CPUs in the hosts participating in the
cluster. For example, if you have a vSAN cluster that contains 4 hosts with 8 CPUs each, assign the cluster a
vSAN license with a minimum capacity of 32 CPUs.
The license use of the vSAN is recalculated and updated in one of the following cases:
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If you assign a new license to the vSAN cluster
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If you add a new host to the vSAN 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 vSAN clusters in compliance with the vSAN licensing model. The total number of
CPUs of all hosts in the cluster must not exceed the capacity of the vSAN license that is assigned to the
cluster.
License and Evaluation Period Expiry
When the license or the evaluation period of a vSAN expires, you can continue to use the currently
congured vSAN resources and features. However, you cannot add SSD or HDD capacity to an existing disk
group or create new disk groups.
vSAN for Desktop
vSAN for Desktop is intended for use in VDI environments, such as vSphere for Desktop or Horizon ™
View™. The license use for vSAN for Desktop equals the total number of powered on VMs in a cluster with
enabled vSAN.
To remain EULA compliant, the license use for vSAN for Desktop must not exceed the license capacity. The
number of powered on desktop VMs in a vSAN cluster must be less than or equal to the license capacity of
vSAN 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 entire 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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