Depends on your licenses. vSphere Standard will only support 24GB per socket of usable RAM (you can have as much installed as you like), Enterprise supports 32GB, and Ent+ is 48GB. (Also, your Advanced licenses are now Enterprise.) So if you have anything less than Ent+ you'll need an additional CPU license per host – even though you don't have another CPU socket in there. You're effectively buying RAM licenses.
As The Register put it this morning, why don't they just make it $995 for a vSphere license and then add RAM, FT, and HA as a-la-carte features? ---- Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Harry Singh <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:20:06 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes I could be missing something in the article entirely, but where are you guys reading that the vRAM requirement per CPU will be 24GB ? I have 3 hosts with DUAL CPU sockets (quad core each) and 72GB RAM on each. I'm really curious on how much that will cost in a vSphere 5 world. Especially more since I have up until 8/22 to purchase 4.1. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Make that DUAL CPU (with quad core for older boxes, and six-core for newer boxes). Remember, SMB just refers to a level of revenue and/or employee size. And focus on the M rather than the S (although my current org is more S than M) ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Depends on how you define SMB.... I work for/with two that do. For most workloads, RAM is more of a bottleneck than CPU, and in a heavily virtualized environment, you're going to see lots of RAM. We have 4 VSphere hosts that we just upgraded to 120GB of RAM -- quad core boxes... Plus two new ones with 144GB, also quad core. ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: How many SMBs run more than 24GB per proc now? I honestly can't see that many that would. I'm licensed for 6 proc's, meaning in my environment I could run a total of 144GB . I don't see this being a big deal for us in the SMB space. My hosts have less memory than the processor limit, as it is. Will this increase overtime? Likely. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Webster <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: One analyst says for some large VMware shops with large VMs this could quadruple their VMware licensing costs. Another analyst says VMware is sending a clear message to SMBs, “You can’t afford us”. Like MBS, I am NOT a VMware person. This is just my $0.02US worth. Webster From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes Great way for vmware to drive customers to Hyper-V. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Subject: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes http://blogs.softchoice.com/advisor/2011/07/12/big-changes-in-licensing-model-for-vmware-vsphere-5-vmware/ Note how licensing is moving to be CPU based but limited by vRam. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
