vSphere 5: What’s in Enterprise Plus?
One of the most popular posts on VirtualFuture.info is about licensing vSphere 4 and the difference vSphere 4 Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. Apparently, the information is hard to find or not simply explained somewhere. Now that vSphere 5 is announced, I might as well blog about this version as well.
First of all, the limit on the number of cores are gone. With vSphere 4 Enterprise you were limited to 6 cores per CPU socket. With Enterprise Plus, this limit was 12 cores per CPU socket. The new vSphere licensing model eliminates the restrictive physical entitlements of CPU cores and physical RAM per server, replacing them with a single virtualization-based entitlement of pooled virtual memory (vRAM). This will simplify the process of purchasing deploying and managing vSphere while facilitating the move to shared infrastructure as a service. The vSphere 5.0 licensing model is per processor (CPU) with pooled vRAM entitlements.
The vRAM licenses come in a number of flavors:
UEM Smackdown released
I’m proud to present to you the User Environment Management Smackdown.
“Are you looking for an independent overview of the User Environment Management solutions and curious about the different features- and functions each vendor is offering!? This is the whitepaper you definitely must read!
In the current market there is an increasing demand for unbiased information about User Environment Management solutions. This white paper is focused on solutions that are anticipated to have an important role in Desktop deployments. An overview of available features of each solution is created to better understand each solutions capability. ” … Continue Reading
Disappearing Virtual NIC & VMX has left the building
I know I’m not the first who noticed it, since this message is to be found in log files for years with ESX, but I still wanted to share this one:
Especially when you’re seriously troubleshooting an issue and this message appears, it’s a good laugh. Kudos to the VMware programmer with humour 
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Back 2 Business: the missing/disappeared Virtual NIC
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vSphere client for iPad now available, and it’s free!
After the release of the VMware View client for iPad last week, there is now a new VMware application for the iPad: the vSphere client! This client is now available for download at the iTunes Appstore and it’s free of charge!
The only thing you need to have installed is a virtual appliance from VMware: The vCMA.
Steps to take:
- download the OVF, import it in VMware vCenter and modify the ip-settings so it has a fixed ip address. An optional step is to create a DNS-record for this appliance. Now that you’ve installed the vCMA, configure your VMware vSphere client for iPad.
- Once the vCMA virtual appliance powers on, on the home screen of the iPad go to “Settings”, scroll down and tap on “vSphere Client”. Now enter the IP Address of the vCMA virtual appliance in the “Web Server” field. … Continue Reading
Important vSphere ESX4.1i patch out!
Normally I don’t post info about KB articles out (I don’t post a lot at all I have to be honest and ashamed to say), but yesterday a patch was released that I’d like to give some attention. One of the reasons is that I ran into some pretty heavy issues at one of my customers and this patch addresses those issues.
The patch: Patch ESXi410-201010401-SG
KB article: 1027021
Applies to: ESX4.1i Installable, ESX4i Embedded
Released: 15th of November 2010.
