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  • 1.  NSX Licensing

    Posted Jan 26, 2016 08:09 AM

    hi there

    please someone explain me per cpu licensing model for nsx.

    in my environment with 50 hp dl380 g9 server and 2cpu per server how many licnse i have to buy?

    100?

    my environment already have this component :

    vsphere enterprise plus 6

    vcloud sute  6.2.x

    thansk for your replay and sorry for my poor english



  • 2.  RE: NSX Licensing

    Posted Jan 26, 2016 01:13 PM

    You are correct. One NSX license per socket, so two per host.



  • 3.  RE: NSX Licensing

    Posted Jan 26, 2016 01:18 PM

    hi

    thanks for your reply.

    so i have to spend more than 500000$ for 100 license?



  • 4.  RE: NSX Licensing
    Best Answer

    Posted Jan 26, 2016 06:40 PM

    Hi

    To clarify a bit, you would only need 100 CPU licenses if you wanted to run NSX on the entire environment.  You can run it only on a subset like say one cluster that needs more security than others for instance.  Plenty of customers start that way.

    Also, since you're running vCloud Suite, there is an add-on SKU for NSX that is not the full price you'd pay for NSX on its own.  Finally, for that many licenses, there's no way you'd pay list price - there's lots of things your VMware sales rep can do with pricing at that scale.  If you don't know who your rep is, email me directly at showard@vmware.com and I'll get you connected.

    Thanks!

    Sean