vSphere+ and vSAN+ Subscriptions

Introduction:

When people are talking about pay per use model of Cloud services, VMware also came up with same feature in licensing subscription model for its on-premise infrastructure along with retaining its traditional way of perpetual licensing.

If any Organization opts for subscription-based licensing, then they don’t have to purchase perpetual license keys with specific CPU numbers, they have the option to integrate vCenter to vSphere+ or vSphere+ with vSAN+ feature and pay only for whatever number of CPUs are being used.

It comes with two parts:

1. vSphere+ licensing subscription for ESXi hosts

2. vSAN+ for vSAN infrastructure licensing

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It allows to use vSphere+ with or without vSAN+ subscription.

When you deactivate vSAN on a cluster with a?vSAN+?subscription, the?vSphere+?subscription is applied automatically to all?ESXi?hosts associated with that cluster.

Caution to be followed:

It is not recommended to connect vCenter to vSAN+ subscription which is already having few clusters with vSAN perpetual license keys, and you want to continue with it. In this case vSAN+ subscription will be applied on all the vSAN clusters and result in unexpected extra cost.