Alan Renouf has written a handy Powershell/PowerCLI script to check your licensing and vRAM usage against the vSphere 5 licensing model:
http://www.virtu-al.net/2011/07/14/vsphere-5-license-entitlements/ Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal | Infrastructure Engineer NHS Herefordshire & Herefordshire Council | Deputy Chief Executive's Office | I.C.T. Services Division Thorn Office Centre, Rotherwas, Hereford, HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260160 From: Jonathan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 July 2011 11:29 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: {Disarmed} Re: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes That is correct. The pooled vRAM is charged based on vRAM allocation to powered on VMs. If you run vCenter Operations Manager, it will tell you where you are over allocated, and give you the baseline data to justify any changes you might want to make. If the machines are not powered on, then they don't count against you. Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. On Jul 14, 2011 2:08 PM, "Blackman, Woody" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I believe you still have to comply with the v5 license model even with the downgrade option. From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes Remember, there are downgrade rights - you can buy vSphere 5 licenses and downgrade to the 4.1 ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.sunbeltsoftware.c" claiming to be http://www.sunbeltsoftware.c.<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.c.>.. ~ 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
