ESXi 5 free up to 32GB RAM

El pasado 4 de agosto publicabamos un post con los nuevos cambios en el licenciamiento despues de que VMware "escuchase" las voces de queja sobre su nuevo modelo de licenciamiento, pero no ha sido hasta el pasado dia 8 cuando en su blog oficial se ah publicado los cambios "definitivos" o no....

Textualmente:

Just to recap, the three enhancements we made to the model are as follows:

1. Raising the vRAM entitlements across all editions and kits. Essentials, Essentials Plus, and Standard offerings jump 33% to 32GB of vRAM per 1 CPU. Enterprise and Enterprise Plus double their vRAM entitlements to 64GB and 96GB per 1 CPU respectively.

2. 96GB vRAM cap for each VM. While you can create a VM with up to 1 TB of vRAM the amount we count against the pool will never exceed 96GB. So, no single VM is ever more than 1 license of Enterprise Plus

3. The high water mark that we used to make sure you had enough license in the environment changes to a 12 month rolling average. This will make an spikes in useage even out over time and not force you to have licenses just to cover a infrequent spike in use. This is the same model we use for our per VM management products.

http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/08/changes-to-the-vram-licensing-model-introduced-on-july-12-2011.html

Cambios licenciamiento vSphere 5 (Parte 2ª)

Os pego directmente un extracto del correo que hemos recibido sobre los 3 nuevos cambios (rectificaciones... a mi entender) sobre el licenciamiento de vSphere 5:

".....We’ve listened to your ideas and advice, and we are taking action with the following three updates to the vSphere 5 licensing model:

* We’ve increased vRAM entitlements for all vSphere editions, including the doubling of the entitlements for vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. Below is a comparison of the previously announced and the new vSphere 5 vRAM entitlements per vSphere edition:

* We’ve capped the amount of vRAM we count in any given VM, so that no VM, not even the “monster” 1TB vRAM VM, would cost more than one vSphere Enterprise Plus license. This change also aligns with our goal to make vSphere 5 the best platform for running Tier 1 applications.

* We’ve adjusted our model to be much more flexible around transient workloads, and short-term spikes that are typical in test & development environments for example. We will now calculate a 12-month average of consumed vRAM to rather than tracking the high water mark of vRAM.

Finally, we introduced the vSphere Desktop Edition to address vSphere licensing in a desktop environment. vSphere Desktop is licensed on the total number of Powered On Desktop Virtual Machines allowing customers to purchase vSphere for VDI use case on per user basis. Our price books are being updated and will be available on Partner Central shortly."


Ala, que cada uno saque sus propias conclusiones e ir dejando de pensar en cambiaros a Xen o Hyper-V juas juas juas.....

Calcular licencias para vSphere 5

Os dejo varios enlaces para calcular licencias para vSphere 5.....con la coñita de la vRAM hay que pensarselo dos veces a la hora de desplegar maquinas y sobre todo de actualizarse a la nueva version, aunque es muy probable que VMware tenga que suavizar o los precios o las condiciones de su nuevo modelo de licenciamiento. Lo estaban haciendo muy bien hasta ahora, pero les acaban de abrir mercado a otros fabricantes claramente, lo cual es bueno para todos... nadie quiere un monopolio como el de Microsoft again and again...

Simple VMware vSphere 4 & 5 License Calculator de virtualvcp

CapacityVIEW de vKernel

vSphere 5 pricing and packaging white paper

vSphere Licensing Overview - Slides ya disponibles en PDF

Ya estan disponibles las slides del webcast sobre licenciamiento en el siguiente enlace....y eso que la presentacion aun no ha empezado....tic tac ...tic tac....

vSphere Licensing Overview

El detalle mas significativo es el siguiente, por CPU y tipo de licencia:  "vSphere 5.0 and later Per CPU with Pooled vRAM Entitlements":

 

EJEMPLO: para la licencia de vSphere Essentials 5, que permite un maximo de 3 host y un maximo de 24GB por socket, harian un maximo entre los 3 host de 144 GB de RAM (2*24*3=144)

 

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Licenciar vSphere 5

Con toda la polemica que esta levantando el nuevo modelo de licenciamiento de la nueva version de vSphere, VMware lanza unos webcast los proximos dias al respecto:

July 18, 2011 10:00 AM (PT) | 1:00 PM (ET) - "Pricing and Packaging for VMware vSphere 5"
July 25, 2011 10:00 AM (PT) | 1:00 PM (ET) - "Pricing and Packaging for VMware vSphere 5"
August 18, 2011 9:00 AM (PT) | 12:00 PM (ET) - "Pricing and Packaging for VMware vSphere 5"

>El enlace para registraros:

https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=338011&sessionid=1&key=1FF20CF56D7FD5A6E81F11ADB01014AE&partnerref=WEB&sourcepage=register

Tambien esta ya disponible un PDF con el modelo de:
"VMware vSphere™ 5.0: Licensing, Pricing and Packaging"
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf

Nuevo modo de licenciamiento VMware con vSphere 5, la vRAM

VMware ha introducido una nueva modalidad de licenciamiento con vSphere 5, ahora otro parametro de configuracion y cantidad de RAM afecta a la licencia.

Ejemplo de lo que seria un pool de vRAM y como podemos mover mv´s entre esos pools:

 Este es el line up de precios para las versiones Standard, Enterprise y Plus:

Este es el esquema de upgrade desde vsphere 4.x a la 5.x:

Este es el esquema de upgrade entre versiones de vsphere 5.x:

Segun la web del fabricante bajo el lema de "Understand How vSphere and vCenter Server Are Licensed"
y cito textualmente para evitar confusiones "

       "....vSphere 5 will be licensed on a per processor basis with a vRAM entitlement. Each vSphere 5 processor license will entitle the purchaser to a specific amount of vRAM, or memory configured to virtual machines. The vRAM entitlement can be pooled across a vSphere environment to enable a true cloud or utility-based IT consumption model. Just like VMware technology offers customers an evolutionary path from the traditional datacenter to a cloud infrastructure, the new vSphere 5 licensing model allows customers to evolve to a cloud-like "pay for consumption" model without disrupting established purchase, deployment, and license management practices and processes. Unlike vSphere 4.x licenses, vSphere 5 licenses do not impose any limits on the number of cores per processors and maximum size of RAM capacity per host."

Teneis el documento completo en este enlace: https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf