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VMware Infrastructure 3Pricing, Packaging and Licensing Overview

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Tbl of ContntsIntoduction to VM® Infstuctu 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Picing, Pckging & Licnsing Ovvi .......................................3wht is N in VM® Infstuctu 3 .......................................3VM® Infstuctu 3 editions .............................................3

VMware® ESXi 3VMware® Infrastructure 3 Foundation                                                        3VMware® Infrastructure 3 Standard                                                          4VMware® Infrastructure 3 Enterprise 4

Mngmnt Svs .........................................................5a-l-Ct Poducts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Upgds to VM® Infstuctu 3 editions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5VM® Infstuctu 3 accltion Kits .....................................6

VMware® Infrastructure 3 Foundation Acceleration Kit 7 VMware® Infrastructure 3 Standard High Availability Acceleration Kit 7 VMware® Infrastructure 3 Midsize Acceleration Kit                                             7 VMware® Infrastructure 3 Enterprise Acceleration Kit 7

VM® Infstuctu 3 SnS entitlmnts .....................................8VM® Infstuctu 3 Licnsing Tchnology .................................8Summy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

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Intoduction to VM® Infstuctu 3

VMware® Infrastructure 3 is the most widely deployed softwaresuite for optimizing and managing IT environments throughvirtualization – from the desktop to the data center. VMware®Infrastructure 3 suites include:

•VMware®ESXi•VMware®VMFSandVMware®VirtualSMP®•VMware®VirtualCenterAgentwhichallowscentralmanagementusingVMware®VirtualCenterServer2.5•VMware®UpdateManager,VMware®VMotion,StorageVMotion,VMware®HighAvailability(HA),VMware®DistributedResourceSchedule(DRS)withVMware®DistributedPowerManagement(DPM),andVMware®ConsolidatedBackup

This whitepaper outlines the various VMware® Infrastructure 3

bundlesandthelatestchangestopricing,licensing,upgradepathsandSupportandSubscription(SnS)entitlements.

Picing, Pckging & Licnsing Ovvi

VMwareInfrastructure3pricing,packagingandlicensingsimplifythepurchasing,deploymentandongoingsupportfor

customers.

•Capacitypricingpertwoprocessors.

VMware Infrastructure

3islicensedbasedonthenumberofprocessorsonthe

physical host and is sold in increments of two processors.

Customerscanpurchaseanddeployorre-deployanymixofservers,asrequired.Eachprocessormaycontain

multiple cores. VMware allows customers to deploy VMwareInfrastructure 3 on physical processors with up to six cores at

noadditionalcharge.Additionalinformationmaybefoundat

http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/multicore.html

•VMware®Infrastructure3editions.

To make the customer’s

decision-makingandpurchasingprocesseasier,VMwareInfrastructure3isavailableinfourpackagedofferingstargetedforvariousITinfrastructureenvironments:VMwareESXi,VMwareInfrastructure3Foundation,VMwareInfrastructure3StandardandVMwareInfrastructure3Enterprise.

•Centralizedlicensingmechanism.

VMware Infrastructure

3usesanembeddedlicensingservertoprovidecentral

management for all VMware Infrastructure 3 product licenses.

Customerscanalsomanagelicensesonaper-hostbasis.

wht is N in VM® Infstuctu 3

The latest changes to VMware® Infrastructure 3 include:

•VMware®ESXi

-TheVMwarenext-generationthinhypervisor,deliveredasembeddedfirmwareinserversystemsfrommajorOEMvendorsorasaninstallableproduct,willletcustomerseasilyandquicklydeployvirtualizationtechnologyinavariety

of environments.

•VMware®UpdateManager

–VMwareUpdateManagerautomatespatchesandupdatemanagementforVMwareESXServerhostsandvirtualmachines.Itisdesignedtorelievethe

significant pain point of tracking patch levels and manually

applyingsecurityandbugfixes.

•VMware®StorageVMotion

– VMware VMotion allows livemigration of virtual machine disks from one data store toanother with no disruption or downtime.

•VMware®DistributedPowerManagement

– VMware

distributespowermanagementtoreducepower

consumption in the datacenter through intelligent workload

balancing.

VM® Infstuctu 3 editions

VMware® ESXi

VMware®ESXistandalonelicensecanbepurchasedeitherembeddedinhardwareorasahard-driveinstallableversion.VMwareESXiincludesVMFSandVirtualSMP.AsaVirtualCenteragentisrequiredtomanageanyVMwareEXSihost,managingVMwareESXihostswithVirtualCenterServerrequiresapurchaseofVMwareInfrastructure3Foundation,StandardorEnterprise.VMwareESXiisavailableatnocostandcanbedownloaded

from http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/

VMware® Infrastructure 3 Foundation

(previouslycalled“Starter”)isidealforsmallbusinesses,departmentsorbranchoffices.Forexample,aninsurance

company with a large network of agent offices may use VMware

Infrastructure3Foundationtostandardizethefewserversin

each office on the same virtualization platform as the corporate

datacenter.UnlikethepreviousVMwareInfrastructure3Starter,VMwareInfrastructure3Foundationwillhavenorestrictionsonsharedstorageconnectivity,memoryutilizationornumberofCPUsofthephysicalserver.VMware®Infrastructure3Foundationincludes:•VMwareESXiandVMware®ESX•VMFS(VirtualMachineFileSystem)•VirtualSMP•VMwareVirtualCenterAgentLicense•VCB(ConsolidatedBackup)•VMwareUpdateManagerVMware®Infrastructure3FoundationisavailableforUSD$995

per two processors.