VMware Horizon View 7 License Comparison

If  you are like me, I am not a fan of how VMware website shows the features and license comparison. I made a table that's visually appetizing.

So here you go,

Following components are bundled in a way so that license distinguishes from each other.

• VMware Identity Manager
• VMware Mirage
• VMware App Volumes
• RDS for Hosted Apps
• vSAN
• VMware vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon

It is evident that named user license is only available for Horizon Advanced and Horizon Enterprise Editions.

Also Linux desktops is only available as a separate license called "Horizon for Linux" and "Horizon Enterprise License".

Features	Sub-Component/Product	Horizon For Linux	Horizon Standard	Horizon Advanced	Horizon Enterprise
Concurrent User (CCU)		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Named User		No	No	Yes	Yes
Windows virtual desktops and session based desktops	VMware Horizon	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Linux Desktops	VMware Horizon for Linux	Yes	No	No	Yes
Unified workspace - XA, RDSH, SaaS, ThinApp	VMware Identity Manager Std	No	No	Yes	Yes
Hosted Applications (RDSH)	RDS Hosted Apps	No	No	Yes	Yes
Packaged Applications	VMware ThinApp	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
BLAST Performance (3D, UC, MMR, etc)	VMware Horizon	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Application and Desktop Access with Single-Sign-On	VMware Identity Manager Std	No	No	Yes	Yes
Image management for physical desktop	VMware Mirage	No	No	Yes	Yes
Real-time application delivery	VMware App Volumes	No	No	No	Yes
Just-in-Time Delivery with Instant Clone Technology	VMware Horizon	No	No	No	Yes
User, profile and policy Management	VMware User Environment Manager	No	No	No	Yes
Operations Dashboard – Health Monitoring & Performance Analytics	VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon	No	No	No	Yes
Capacity Management – Planning & Optimization	VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon	No	No	No	Yes
Virtual Storage	VMware vSAN Advanced for Desktop with all-flash	No	No	Yes	Yes
Cloud Infrastructure	VMware vSphere Desktop & VMware vCenter Desktop	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Changes to vSphere & vSOM Licensing

So once again VMware has changed its licensing structure on VMware vSphere and vSOM cumulatively.

VMware has chosen to eliminate Enterprise version of vSphere, also it has got rid of Standard and Enterprise versions of vSOM.

The licensing structure is as follows.

vCenter is now included with 25 Operating System Instance of Log Insight in all editions of vSphere and vSOM.

vSphere Standard       vSphere Enterprise Plus      vSOM Enterprise Plus

However the licensing is still socket based.

To compare the editions please refer http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere.html

It seems I have already documented on my previous post about this on http://venthusiast.blogspot.com/2016/06/vsphere-license-changes.html

vSphere Enterprise Plus customers gets to upgrade to New vSphere Cloud for FREE!

I was able to meetup with the VMware principals today.

We were advised that the customers who are using vSphere Enterprise Plus license gets to upgrade VMware vCloud Suite free of charge.

VMware vCloud Suite Components

vSphere	Virtualized infrastructure with policy-based automation	Learn More
vCloud Director	Virtualized datacenters with multi-tenancy and public cloud extensibility	Learn More
vCloud Connector	Integrated viewing and dynamic transfer of workloads between private and public clouds.	Learn More
vCloud Networking and Security	Software defined networking, security, and ecosystem integration	Learn More
vCenter Site Recovery Manager	Automated disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution	Learn More
vCenter Operations Management Suite	Integrated, proactive performance, capacity, and configuration management for dynamic cloud environments.	Learn More
vFabric Application Director	Multi-tier application service catalog publishing and provisioning	Learn More

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It comes with 3 flavors viz Standard, Advanced and Enterprise.

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