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Example: VMware vSphere 8.0 Enterprise Plus

The following example describes a licensing scenario of two servers with installations of the VMware vSphere 8.0 Enterprise Plus (VSEP) application.

In the compliance summary of the application VMware vSphere 8.0 Enterprise Plus, we see that:

  • The metric of the application is set to Number of processor cores.
  • There are 1068 cores.
  • There are no (0) licenses with that metric for this application.
  • There is a license requirement of 1152 licenses.
  • There are 0 licenses available for coverage.
  • We are 1152 licenses short.

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In this example, we want to cover two servers with the required number of licenses:

  • The first server has one CPU with six cores.
  • The second server has two CPUs and 12 cores per CPU.

The minimum license requirement for the VMware vSphere 8.0 Enterprise Plus application is 16 core licenses per CPU.

License requirements​

The application VMware vSphere 8.0 Enterprise Plus is detected on hardware with a total number of 1068 cores. Since the license requirement is based on the number of CPUs, the Initial requirement differs from the number of Required licenses. We see that 84 extra licenses are added as an adjustment for the Minimum requirement.

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For information on the consumers of this application:

  • Click the Licenses tab, and then click Tracking.
    A list of all consumers that require a license is shown.

We see that there are 34 consumers with the Entitlement state set to Not covered.

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For detailed information on a specific consumer:

  • On the Licenses tab and in the Tracking view, click the arrow next to the number of Required licenses for the consumer (in this example 32).
    In the License requirements box, an adjustment for the Minimum requirement appears.

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Licensing​

For support, you can use the report License tracking per computer.

We want to cover two servers:

  • The first server has one CPU with six cores.
  • The second server has two CPUs and 12 cores per CPU.
  • The minimum license requirement for VMware vSphere 8.0 Enterprise Plus is 16 core licenses per CPU.
  • We have a license requirement of 16 + 32 = 48 licenses.

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We purchase and register a license for the VMware vSphere 8.0 Enterprise Plus application with:

  • quantity = 48
  • metric = Number of processor cores

We assign licenses to the two servers according to their respective license requirement of 16 and 32 licenses.

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After a completed compliance calculation, we see that the application VMware vSphere 8.0 Enterprise Plus now has a Coverage of 48 licenses.

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To verify that the servers are covered:

  • Click the Licenses tab, and then click Tracking.
    We see that the Entitlement state of the two servers has changed to Covered.

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