A
recent engagement of vCloud Suite License caught us off guard. This
is because VMware has retired “Per CPU” license and replaced it with “Portable
License Unit” PLU for short.
But how
does PLU license convert to deprecate CPU license was a question that cropped
up…
Since VMware
embarked on the cloud journey jointly with AWS and other major players they had
to rethink the strategy of licensing. So here is a quick primer on the PLU
license.
1 PLU
License can be directly converted to 1 CPU license. One PLU unit also can be
converted to 15 OSI’s (Operating System Instances). These 15 OSI’s can be
Physical Server instances or 15 vm’s on the cloud.
The
following was extracted from VMware PLU License white paper:
“One PLU allows usage of vRealize
Suite to manage unlimited OSIs/VMs deployed on one on-premises vSphere CPU or
up to 15 OSIs deployed on the public cloud including vCloud Air, vCloud Air
Network Partners, other supported public clouds, as well as third-party
hypervisors and physical servers.”
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