I need to renew our license, today perpetual, for SaaS. My VM's are on a production server (16 cores) and are mirrored on another backup server, both with VMWare 8.0 Update 3, through Veeam Backup. The mirror server (same number of cores) is intended for DR only, without VM's in operation, only used in case of disaster, that is, inoperative production server.
I ask: Should the licensing be for the total cores of both (32) or only for the production server (16)?
I'm not aware of any "discounts" for standby hosts, so you'd need to license all cores.
With your license requirements, you may want to read https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/28/arrow_vmware_licensing_change/
André