In 2016, VMware is bringing an end of availability of vSphere Enterprise and vSOM Standard & Enterprise. The pricing and packaging changes are realigned to the remaining products.

1. Data Centre
Enterprise Computing Solutions – United Kingdom
VMware Pricing and
Packaging Changes 2016
In 2016, VMware is bringing an end of availability of vSphere Enterprise and vSOM Standard & Enterprise. The pricing and packaging changes are
realigned to the remaining products.
The Changes:
> vRealize Suite is now the main way to consume VMware’s Cloud Management Platform. There are three editions available: Standard,
Advanced and Enterprise.
> vCloud Suite has been simplified to vSphere Enterprise Plus and the respective vRealize Suite Edition.
> vSphere Enterprise is going to be supported until 2020.
> Introduction of the Portable Licence Unit Model (PLU) Portable Licensing (PLU*)
o vCloud Suite licenses can be converted for use in hybrid clouds (i.e. vCloud Air, Azure, AWS etc.) or a supported non-vSphere platform
(KVM/XenServer/Hyper-V) at a rate of 15 x non-vSphere OSi licenses per CPU license.
o This portable licensing metric gives the customer flexibility and scalability over where they deploy them – either on premise or in
the cloud.
The Timeline:
Feb 1 Feb 10 March 1 April 1 June 25 June 30
OEM &
Channel
price books
available
Products GA,
All vCS/vRealize
PnP changes,
Fulfillment
PnP announcement,
Price decrease for
existing SKUs,
vSphere/vSOM ENT to
ENT+ 50% upgrade
promo start date
EOA of vSphere
ENT, vSOM
STD and vSOM
ENT
vSOM ENT+,
vCenter Server
STD & Int’l
existing price
increase
vSphere/vSOM
ENT to ENT+
50% upgrade
promotion end
date

2. Data Centre
Enterprise Computing Solutions – United Kingdom
The Impact on Customers
Customers in a multi-year contract will see no affect until renewal. On renewal, customers may see an increase on their SnS price.
Customers currently using vSOM Standard will have their licensing fulfilled to the individual components (i.e. vSphere Standard and vROps
Standard). A special CPU vROps Standard SKU has been created for this so as not to impact existing vSOM Standard customers SnS. These
customers can add new licenses to their environment by purchasing vSphere Standard and vROps Standard.
Existing, active SnS customers will get the new capabilities, no loss of functionality and a minimal impact to their licenses and SnS costs at
renewal.
Upgrade Promotions:
The New Portfolio:
vSphere
STD ENT+
vRealize Suite
STD ADV ENT
vCloud Suite
STD ADV ENT
vSphere
ENT+
vR Ops STD
WLP
vRealize Business for
Cloud STD: Cloud
Compare, Costing
Log Insight: Log
Analysis
vRealize Operations
ADV: SDCC monitoring
for hybrid clouds
vRealize Automation ADV:
Infrastructure Automation
vRealize Business for
Cloud ADV: Cloud
Planning, Costing
Log Insight: Log
Analysis
vRealize Operations
ADV: SDCC monitoring
for hybrid clouds
vRealize Automation ENT:
Infrastructure Automation
vRealize Business for
Cloud ADV: Cloud
Planning, Costing
Log Insight: Log
Analysis
vRealize Operations
ADV: SDCC monitoring
for hybrid clouds
vRealize Automation ENT:
Application Automation
vRealize Operations1
:
App Monitoring
vSphere
ENT+ forvCS
vRealize
STD
vSphere
ENT+ forvCS
vRealize
ADV
vSphere
ENT+ forvCS
vRealize
ENT
Portable License for 1 vSphere CPU or 15 non-vSphere OSIs
vSphere vSOM
ENT+
vSphere ENT
vSOM ENT
vSOM STD vSphere STD
vSphere ENT+
vSphere ENT
(EOA)2
vSOM ENT+
vSOM ENT
(EOA)4
vROPs STD
(á la carte3)
1
1
1
1
2
Opt-in 50% Off Upgrade2
Opt-in 50% Off Upgrade3
Fulfilled to vSphere STD and
vROPs STD a la carte
Supported through end of
general support date
Supported through end of
general support date
1
Application Monitoring is one of the features in vRealize Operations Enterprise edition.
It is included in vRealize Suite Enterprise edition and available as an add-on capability for vRealize Suite Standard & Advanced.
2
Option to upgrade from ENT to ENT+ at a 50% discount off the upgrade licence price from February 10 to June 25, 2016.
3
Supported through end of general support date (March 2020 for vSphere Enterprise 6.0).
4
vROpsSTD (CPU) à la carte for entitlements only, not for new sales