Licensing VMware vSphere for VMware NSX

If you are using vSphere 5.5 Update 3 or vSphere 6 then NSX does not require a vSphere Enterprise Plus licence however if you are using vSphere 5.5 update 2 or earlier then a vSphere Enterprise Plus license is required.

This is because NSX is based on the vSphere Distributed Switch which is part of the Enterprise Plus licence feature set.

Reference: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2135310

vShield Manager/Endpoint

I thought I would share with you a discussion we had in the office this morning regarding vShield Manager and its current position now EOA has been announced for vCNS.

  • vShield Manager allows you to manage vShield Endpoint(s), vShield Endpoint was a component of vCNS it lets you manage anti-virus and anti-malware policies for virtualized environments with the same management interfaces you use to secure physical infrastructure e.g. Sophos Enterprise Console.
  • vShield Manager will remain as an available download for all vSphere Essentials Plus and above customers, it will be available for download from the VMware download section.
  • Once the vShield Manager virtual appliance is deployed (No licence key is required as its uses the existing vSphere Key) vShield Endpoints can then be deployed on to the hosts.
  • VM’s communicate with the vShield Endpoints via means of a thin agent built in to VMware Tools.
  • To take advantage of IDS/IPS services offered by NSX certified partners NSX is required; the guest introspection services are needed to take full advantage offered by these services.

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