vSAN Licensing

[Ryan McCarty]

After upgrading to vSphere 8 we are suddenly getting an error about VSAN capacity exceeding entitlement. I am told this is because of a change in the license model that now provides 100GiB of VSAN capacity per a licensed and in use core. They have VMWare vSphere Foundation for VDI for 300 VMs in a 192 core 6 node VSAN environment. Total capacity of the VSAN environment is 31.44 TB. I need to know how much and what kind of licensing we need to get their environment licensed appropriately. I have tried running the script from Broadcom support article 95927 but got an inconclusive answer and it still doesn't necessarily tell us what license tier should be purchased.

[Geogee]

From the november this Year Broadcom mentioned, that for VVF there is increment in vSAN capacity per core to 250GB/core.

But in the vSphere client it will be reflected in the next update (8.0U3d?).

The licensing of vSAN is not hard restrictive, so you can wait until next release and then buy aditional vSAN capacity what you will require. From the November the VVF capacity is not mentioned as trial, so you can buy only aditional capacity which is above the Core capacity which you already have. Previously you have to buy the vSAN from the ground up.

Hope it helps you.

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Jiri Viktorin
VCIX-DCV, VCIX-NV, VCF-VCI, vExpert
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[Ryan McCarty]

So they need to buy a license for 250GB per processor core that they have?

[Geogee]

No,

In VVF licensing is vSAN 250GiB/core included. So if you buy fx. 16cores of VVF, you are able to use vSAN in RAW capacity of 4TiB without any additional fee.

Everything above this you need to buy as vSAN Add-On counted in TiB

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Jiri Viktorin
VCIX-DCV, VCIX-NV, VCF-VCI, vExpert
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[terrible_towel]

Hello.   If you are talking about the "VVF for Desktop from Omnissa"..  here is the latest FAQ that discuses all this:

Omnissa Horizon combined offering with VMware vSphere Foundation for VDI - FAQ (6000381)   

However -- its still clear as mud !

[Morry Katz]

VVF for VDI comes with 100 G/core of vSAN.  In your case, 192 cores * 100G = 19.2 TB of vSAN.   If you need more than 19.2 TB of storage, you need to purchase the VVF or VCF from Broadcom.   There is a vSAN add-on that can be combined with the Broadcom VVF offer, which is different than VVF for VDI, which can be utilized to for storage needs beyond the originally 100G and now 250G/core of vSAN that comes with the Broadcom VVF offer.   For completeness, one can also purchase VCF, which comes with 1 T/core of vSAN capacity.

[Erik Verbruggen]

Is there any official documentation in which this is documented? It's hard to find any information about this subject today.