VMware licencing

Shad · 31 Aug 2013 at 18:48

Managed to confuse myself with VMware licencing. At work we're looking to run two hypervisor hosts (two E5 CPUs in each host) with vCenter Server (which itself will be a VM). The VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit licence is going to be our best option right? We need vMotion and HA but aren't too concerned about storage vMotion or FT. I priced up the individual components and it came out around £2k more expensive.

Cheers!

Shad · 31 Aug 2013 at 22:15

Thanks Dave. Actually we intend to use shared storage (FC and iSCSI). The Essentials Kit only talks about VSA as far as I can see, but surely normal shared storage and multipathing is supported out of the box?

Shad · 1 Sep 2013 at 22:02

Useful info, thanks! Sounds like the vCenter 5.5 appliance is much better which would indeed save us a Windows and an SQL Server license

Shad · 2 Sep 2013 at 19:21

Another quick question - if we were to purchase 5.1 I'm assuming we should be able to upgrade to 5.5 when it's released? Since it's just a point release I would expect it to work the same as 5.0 to 5.1 - or I could be wrong.

I have asked these questions to VMware via a sales email but haven't heard anything for over a week... :rolleyes: