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August 10th, 2011
You voiced your concerns. VMware listened.Major Adjustments to vSphere 5 licensing
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Softchoice at a Glance
• US$884 million in revenues (2010)*• Top 4 VMware Reseller• 45 Branch offices • 15,000 North American Customers
• 920 employees• More than 100 pre-sales resources• Traded on TSX Symbol: SO
*Total Imputed Revenue of US$1. 874 billion**Computer Dealer News Magazine
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Agenda
Understanding the Key Driver for Licensing Change
vSphere 5: Licensing Changes Edition Consolidation and Upgrade Rights vRAM Definition and Entitlements New Announcements on August 2nd
vSphere 4: Staying Put Downgrade Rights VMware Support Model
Questions and Answers Please include any questions in the chat window to the
presenter and host
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vSphere 4.x vSphere 5.0
Enterprise Plus
Enterprise
Advanced
Standard
Essentials Plus
Essentials
Enterprise Plus
Enterprise
Standard
Essentials Plus
Essentials
vSphere 5: License Changes Edition Consolidation
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Understanding the Key Driver for Licensing Change
Moore’s Law states the number of transistors will double every two years
RAM moving forward will be a better indicator of the number of VMs running on a host
Customers can now leverage advanced CPU capacity
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vSphere 5 licensing announced July 12th
vSphere 4.x vSphere 5
Licensing Unit Processor = Processor
Core per proc Restricted < Unlimited
Physical RAM per host Restricted < Unlimited
Pooled vRAM entitlement NA ≠ Amt of vRAM pooled across
entire environment
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What is vRAM? Assigning a certain amount of vRAM is a required
step in the creation of a virtual machine
vRAM ≠ physical RAM
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vRAM Entitlements on July 12th
vSphere 5 EditionvRAM
entitlement per license
Average #VMs per enabled by
entitlements
Average #VM on 2-way server enabled
by entitlements
Average #VM on 4-way server enabled
by entitlements
Standard 24 GB 6-12 VMs 12-24 VMs 24-48 VMs
Enterprise 32 GB 8-16 VMs 16-32 VMs 32-64 VMs
Enterprise Plus 48 GB 12-24 VMs 24-48 VMs 48-96 VMs
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Summary of Customer and Partner Feedback
Customers were concerned about their future-looking business cases that have been based on future hardware capabilities and the previous vSphere 4 licensing model.
Substantially raise the vRAM entitlements for each vSphere edition
Creates additional hesitation for virtualizing business critical apps
Cap the amount of vRAM consumed per VM at 96GB*
Penalizes short lived usage “spikes” in test / development & transient VMs
Calculate a 12 month average of consumed vRAM rather than a high water mark
Makes vSphere for VDI expensive Already addressed with vSphere Desktop edition licensed per user
Feedback VMware Response
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Previously Announced vs New vRAM entitlements
vSphere edition Previous vRAM entitlement
New vRAM entitlement
vSphere Enterprise+ 48 GB 96 GB
vSphere Enterprise 32 GB 64 GB
vSphere Standard 24 GB 32 GB
vSphere Essentials+ 24 GB 32 GB
vSphere Essentials 24 GB 32 GB
Free vSphere Hypervisor 8 GB 32 GBThis limit is GB of physical RAM per physical server
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Calculate vRAM based on12 month average vs high water mark
24-Jul
25-Jul
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1-Aug
2-Aug
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vRAM configured
High water markAverage
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vSphere 5: License Changes Example Enterprise Configuration
• No limit on the number of VMs• Maximum memory allocated to the VMs is limited• To see more vRAM than allowed in processor licenses:• Add more processor licenses• Upgrade Versions
EnterpriseCPU
EnterpriseCPU
EnterpriseCPU
EnterpriseCPU
64GB vRAM
64GB vRAM
64GB vRAM
64GB vRAM
= =256GB
POOL of vRAM64GB x 4
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vSphere 4: Staying Put Downgrade Rights and Support Model
Only the vSphere 5 SKU will be available on the Q3 2011 release
vSphere 5 licenses include the right to downgrade one version
VMware supports two versions back so vSphere 4 support will be available
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In Summary Get an understanding of the amount of RAM you
have allocated to VMs Leverage the free 60-day evaluation of vCenter
Operations Manager to help gather the information
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