vSphere 5 & 5.1 Licensing
As of today's announcement, the new vSphere licensing for 5 and 5.1 will be by per processor licensing moving forward from 27th August 2012. This eliminate the need of vRAM entitlement which was used in vSphere 5.0 last year. This come effect for all new and existing customers on vSphere 5.0 while vSphere 5.1 is yet to be released for download. The updated End User License Agreements (EULA) will replaces and supersede statement can be found here . This change was decided due to the feedback and confusion created when vRAM entitlement was release last year in partners and users. Though vRAM would benefit people with bigger environment, the core processor licensing was still easier for everyone. You can read from the vSphere 5 Licensing white paper here . You may also refer to all the resources of vSphere whether for 5.0 or 5.1 all at this place . I have the table of the license entitlement between 4.1 and prior and the new change for 5.x below: ...