Horizon 8 Licensing Question

[FFulde]

Hello everyone,

we are currently evaluating where to take our VDI situation. We are currently running on "Horizon Standard Term Licenses - Concurrent Users"

However I've found some conflicting resources in different licensing matrixes.

On VMware Horizon Pricing Packaging and Licensing (PPL) White Paper here it says Session Based Desktops  (Terminal Server Farms) are supported for Horizon Standard.

On vmw-horizon-perpetual-and-subscription-term-feature-comparison.pdf (vmware.com) it says that Session Based Desktops (Terminal Server Farms) are not supported.

 

Can anyone help me out here? I can create Farms in the Admin Center just fine, Applications, I cannot create because we don't have Horizon Advanced and it gives me a warning.

So the question is "Am I allowed to create and use RDS Farms and Pools on Horizon Standard or would we need to upgrade to Advanced?"

[Gerard Strouth]

That has always been an advanced option so I'm guessing the doc has a typo.

[Rob Beekmans]

The doc has a typo, Standard does not have RDSH as an option. 
The first link you have there is not going to a doc, was it the packaging guide that had the faulty table in it? 

[FFulde]

Hi Rob,

yes it was the packaging guide if I remember correctly - the link was still working when I posted this. 

Anyways, thanks for clearing up my question. Time to upgrade then since we have to let go of our Standard Term licenses in May 2025 anyways since the support runs out then and our licensing partner assured us we will not be able to renew Term licenses and we apparently were lucky to have renewed them in May 2022.

[Rob Beekmans]

thanks for letting us know, we're going to fix these things..
I'm going to check the licensing comment, too much at hand and some things (licensing is first to drop) are booted from my memory 😉 

[Rob Beekmans]

On 7/26/2024 at 11:29 AM, FFulde said:

Hi Rob,

yes it was the packaging guide if I remember correctly - the link was still working when I posted this. 

Anyways, thanks for clearing up my question. Time to upgrade then since we have to let go of our Standard Term licenses in May 2025 anyways since the support runs out then and our licensing partner assured us we will not be able to renew Term licenses and we apparently were lucky to have renewed them in May 2022.

I think Perhaps the partner was getting confused with Horizon Perpetual? Horizon Perpetual SNS won’t be supported after August 2025. We have not announced any plans to discontinue Horizon Term.

[Angela Ge]

Omnissa Marketing is working on updating all of the licensing documents.  The Standard Term does include RDSH function

 

-Horizon Product Management

[Andre Knoll]

Hello,

We would like to upgrade our 
Horizon 8 Advanced Term per Concurrent User 1 year term license to 350 users.

How much vsan data storage per user is included in omnissa Horizon 8
Advanced/ Advanced Term include?

We think approx. 350 users x 100 GB = 35 TB 
VMware vSAN™Advanced for Desktop Subscription Term only.

Is the Strech Cluster function included in this version?

How can I license another 20 TB VMware vSAN™Advanced for Desktop Subscription Term only?

André Knoll
Medical Informatics

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E-mail: andre.knoll@hbk-zwickau.de

[Matthew Heldstab]

@Andre Knoll sorry for the delay.  Your next subscription will include an entitlement for VMware vSphere Foundation for VDI (VVF for VDI).  You are entitled to 100GiB per core raw for your VSAN.  If you need 35 TB that translates to 32596 GiB.

For example, let's say you have 48 physical cores per host and 6 hosts in your cluster.  That would entitle you to:

48 x 6 x 100 GiB RAW of VSAN or a total of 28800 GiB RAW (30.9TB) or with a FTT=1 failures to tolerate, approximately half of that usable (~15TB).  

If you need to entitle yourself more than that, I have heard you need to purchase VMware Cloud Foundation.  That entitles you to a 1 TiB/core RAW capacity.  

More information is located here

https://ftpdocs.broadcom.com/cadocs/0/contentimages/VVF_VDI_SPD_July2024.pdf