vSphere 5 is licenced on a per-processor basis. Each physical processor (CPU) in a server needs to have at least one vSphere 5 processor licence key assigned to be able to run vSphere. vSphere 5 licence keys can be purchased, deployed and managed in the same way they were with vSphere 4.x.
-There are no restrictions on physical cores or physical RAM with vSphere 5.
-There are no restrictions on the number of virtual machines that can run on each properly licenced vSphere 5 processor.
-VMware vSphere Desktop is specifically designed for licensing vSphere when used to run virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). It can only be used as virtualisation platform for VDI deployments with either VMware Horizon View or third-party connection brokers.
vSphere Data Protection Advanced is licensed per CPU (processor). One license of VDP Advanced is required for each CPU of vSphere hosts running protected virtual machines. Simply put, match the number of vSphere licenses in the environment.
This means customers can:
vSphere Data Protection Advanced can also be purchased as part of the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions of the vSphere with Operations Management Accelerations Kits.
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