Comments on: I am TOTALLY Confused with vSphere 5.0 Enterprise Plus Licensing Model and the Memory Configuration on Dell Poweredge R720 http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5985 My Die-Cast Collection & Interests Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:35:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5985&cpage=1#comment-1940 admin Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:05:19 +0000 http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5985#comment-1940 That's really an interesting web site, I do find it's very useful, thank you very much! That’s really an interesting web site, I do find it’s very useful, thank you very much!

]]> By: Marien Lebreton http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5985&cpage=1#comment-1939 Marien Lebreton Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:59:17 +0000 http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5985#comment-1939 Not related with licensing - but be careful if using 192 GB RAM, as it would not run @1600 MHz if populating all DIMMs per channel. Please refer to http://www.poweredgecpumemory.com/ On the licensing topic, it seems ESXi 5.1 will finally get rid of "vTax" so this is good news. Not related with licensing – but be careful if using 192 GB RAM, as it would not run @1600 MHz if populating all DIMMs per channel.

Please refer to http://www.poweredgecpumemory.com/

On the licensing topic, it seems ESXi 5.1 will finally get rid of “vTax” so this is good news.

]]> By: admin http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5985&cpage=1#comment-1653 admin Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:02:19 +0000 http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5985#comment-1653 Oh...I forgot vSphere 5 allows license to float across servers, so this won't be a problem a long as my average 365 days concurrent vRAM total is within the vRAm pool limit, it doesn't matter my host is having 192GB or more. Your reply actually solved my confusion, thanks. In another words, the new license somehow makes a bit of sense now. :) Oh…I forgot vSphere 5 allows license to float across servers, so this won’t be a problem a long as my average 365 days concurrent vRAM total is within the vRAm pool limit, it doesn’t matter my host is having 192GB or more.

Your reply actually solved my confusion, thanks.

In another words, the new license somehow makes a bit of sense now. :)

]]> By: RobVM http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5985&cpage=1#comment-1649 RobVM Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:30:42 +0000 http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5985#comment-1649 I agree it should be 128GB/socket minimum, especially with 8-core CPUs and the falling price of RAM. Note that you might as well get it with 256GB RAM (at least, probably more), because you are only licensing what you are using per VM, not what is physically in the server, and that amount goes across the vCenter. So when you are doing maintenance, you'll want more memory than you use per host regularly, as those VMs migrate from host to host. Plus you want some memory for host overhead. And also more memory for short tests, clones, whatever. "The 365-day moving average of daily high watermark of vRAM configured to all powered-on virtual machines in aggregate cannot exceed the pooled vRAM capacity." "The vRAM entitlements of VMware vSphere processor licenses are pooled—that is, aggregated—across all CPU licenses managed by a VMware vCenter instance (or multiple linked VMware vCenter instances) to form a total available vRAM capacity (pooled vRAM capacity)" from http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf I agree it should be 128GB/socket minimum, especially with 8-core CPUs and the falling price of RAM. Note that you might as well get it with 256GB RAM (at least, probably more), because you are only licensing what you are using per VM, not what is physically in the server, and that amount goes across the vCenter. So when you are doing maintenance, you’ll want more memory than you use per host regularly, as those VMs migrate from host to host. Plus you want some memory for host overhead. And also more memory for short tests, clones, whatever. “The 365-day moving average of daily high watermark of vRAM configured to all powered-on virtual machines in aggregate cannot exceed the pooled vRAM capacity.”
“The vRAM entitlements of VMware vSphere processor licenses
are pooled—that is, aggregated—across all CPU licenses managed
by a VMware vCenter instance (or multiple linked VMware
vCenter instances) to form a total available vRAM capacity
(pooled vRAM capacity)” from http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf

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