WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.000 Welcome to vSphere 8 in the real world, and now we're going to discuss licensing. 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:12.000 So the features that you can use in a vSphere environment will be based upon the licenses that you purchase. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:17.000 The various levels of licensing will allow you to either have more hosts or fewer hosts. 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:21.000 Certain license types will allow you to simply buy more licenses for more cores, 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.000 and then you can add more hosts with those cores and license them that way. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:27.000 And in addition to that, features. 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:33.000 So some licenses include things like vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS, HA, 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:36.000 some of the more advanced vSphere features. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:42.000 Virtual distributed switches can be like in your Enterprise Plus licenses. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:48.000 So what kind of license you buy will determine basically, one, the size of the infrastructure that you can deploy, 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.000 as well as the features that will be available to you. 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:57.000 When you buy a license, the upgrades are going to be free within that license family. 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:05.000 So if you bought a license for 7, and then 7 update 1, 7 update 2, 7 update 3 comes along, you'll get those updates. 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:09.000 But when 8 comes out, you won't have upgrades for 8. 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:11.000 You'll have to buy licenses for 8. 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:18.000 If you have 8 and then 8 update 1, update 2, 3 kind of come out, again, you'll have licenses for that. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:20.000 Licenses used to be what they call perpetual. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:25.000 So you'd buy a license, and you were licensed for that version of that software. 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:31.000 Now it's subscription-based, which means you're going to buy a license for a number of years, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 years. 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:35.000 And then that time's up, you no longer have a license to run that software. 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:41.000 There's no more perpetual licensing like they used to have. 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:46.000 So when you buy a license, basically you're licensing the number of cores. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:50.000 The license will give you up to 32 physical cores. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:56.000 So if you have a host that has, you know, two prox, and they are 28, you know, cores each, 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:01.000 then you'll need to buy two licenses for that host because you'll have more than the 32. 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:07.000 So even though that one processor only has 28, the other processor, you'll need to license both prox 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:11.000 because you'll need to have a license for each one of those, the 32. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:17.000 There was an attempt a long time ago to license virtual RAM. 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:23.000 So the more VMs you run with virtual RAM, you had to license virtual CPUs, and you had to license virtual RAM. 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:28.000 VMware quickly decided that was a horrible way to try and license things. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:32.000 So now all you do is you license the physical cores in the host. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:34.000 You're not licensing the number of VMs. 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:39.000 You're not licensing the amount of RAM in there, just the physical CPUs, all right? 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:46.000 And so a license can be assigned to, obviously, multiple hosts inside your vCenter environment. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.000 There is an evaluation license. 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.000 So basically the evaluation license is like an Enterprise Plus license. 00:02:53.000 --> 00:03:00.000 You want to be careful with that because I have seen more than once where somebody would deploy a vSphere environment 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:05.000 using the evaluation license, you know, waiting to get their actual licenses or something like that, 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.000 and they start configuring all these features. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:12.000 Then they go and they get their licenses from VMware, and they install their standard license, 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:18.000 and they realize they configured features they're not licensed for, and then things start breaking immediately. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.000 So be careful about that. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:28.000 Make sure that if you are using that evaluation license that you're not planning on turning that into an eventual permanent license 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.000 or, you know, your subscription license. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:36.000 And if you do, only configure features that you are planning on paying for and buying with your license level. 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.000 So ESXi used to have a free version. 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.000 Broadcom has decided they're not going to offer that free version. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:49.000 At the time of this recording, there's not a free version. 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.000 I've actually heard that that might be changing. 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.000 Broadcom might be bringing back the free ESXi. 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:01.000 Things are changing very quickly, so you might want to check that out yourself when you're going to, you know, 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:04.000 look for an ESXi host. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:08.000 It used to be that you could install ESXi not in vCenter. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.000 You had no VMware vCenter features. 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.000 You didn't have DRS, HA, vMotion because you didn't have vCenter. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.000 You just had a standalone host. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.000 You had no support. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.000 You had to go to the community if you needed assistance for something. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:25.000 Very limited access to, you know, the APIs, only like read information. 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.000 You couldn't do anything programmatically to make changes to the host. 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:33.000 And then, of course, your VMs are, you know, limited to eight virtual CPUs per VM. 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:39.000 And the RAM implementations are, again, going back and forth with version 8. 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.000 Right now there isn't even a free version, but there were. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.000 Some of those limitations might be removed. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:50.000 You need to check what Broadcom is doing today, if there even is an evaluation version, 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.000 and if there is, what they are allowing and not allowing. 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:58.000 So, they say standard legacy. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:02.000 What they're talking about is a standard license that isn't vSphere Plus. 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:03.000 Okay. 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:08.000 So, vSphere Plus, with vSphere Plus you'll still have your vCenter server, 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.000 but there's a connector to a cloud environment, 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:16.000 which allows you to get some insight into, like, troubleshooting things. 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.000 It allows VMware support to see your environment 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.000 and help you troubleshoot issues you might be having. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.000 Also, you can make some small changes, 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:31.000 minimal, minimal changes to your vCenter environment through the vSphere Plus cloud portal. 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:36.000 So, with your standard license, just your legacy standard license, 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:42.000 you had vMotion and storage vMotion, you had support for multiple virtual CPUs in your VMs, 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.000 a fault-tolerant VM up to two virtual CPUs. 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:51.000 If the VM had more than two virtual CPUs with standard, you couldn't make it a fault-tolerant VM. 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:57.000 Of course, you had vCenter, so you had, you know, for backup and you had HA capabilities, 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.000 virtualization-based security, storage policies, 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.000 a bunch of different things are, you know, pretty standard for the basic versions. 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:05.000 Okay. 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:08.000 Now, next, we had our Enterprise Plus licenses. 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:09.000 Okay. 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:14.000 And with our Enterprise Plus license, obviously, as you can see from the list here, a lot more stuff. 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.000 So, we have support for OpenStack. 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:21.000 So, if you were using a cloud provider that was using OpenStack, 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:26.000 you could manage your on-prem vCenter environment and your OpenStack environment in your cloud provider 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:30.000 through your vCenter server with your Enterprise Plus license. 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.000 Persistent memory, basically persistent memory, 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:37.000 will allow you to install a persistent memory card into a server, 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:43.000 and it basically treats it kind of like a hard disk, but the VM can use it. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.000 It's much, much faster, like RAM. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:52.000 So, persistent memory basically is for VMs that need to be, you know, very, very fast, 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:55.000 have a very high amount of uptime. 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:59.000 So, when the VM shut down, that persistent memory stays. 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.000 That RAM basically stays. 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:04.000 And when the VM comes back up again, it has access to its persistent memory, 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:09.000 gets it up and running faster, gets back to a certain state faster, things like that. 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:13.000 Host profiles and auto-deploy are included with Enterprise Plus. 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.000 We discussed that already in a previous lesson. 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:18.000 vMotion. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:23.000 So, vMotion is a way of moving a VM from one host to another. 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:25.000 And with our Enterprise Plus licenses, 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:29.000 we have support for doing a vMotion between vCenter servers. 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.000 So, if we have our vCenter servers in link mode, 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.000 we can move VMs between vCenter servers. 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:40.000 Long-distance vMotions would basically mean I can migrate a VM from one host to 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.000 another that are in two different data centers. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.000 There's requirements related to that. 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.000 You need to have, you know, very low latency, very fast connections, 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:48.000 and things like that. 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:52.000 But long-distance vMotions are supported with Enterprise Plus licensing. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:58.000 And cross-cloud, so basically we can migrate VMs from our on-prem environment to, 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.000 you know, Azure, for example, and things like that. 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.000 So, fault-tolerant VPN. 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:07.000 Standard license only supports up to two virtual CPUs for a fault-tolerant VM. 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:12.000 Enterprise Plus, up to eight virtual CPUs for a fault-tolerant VM. 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.000 Virtual machine encryptions, we can encrypt our virtual machines on disk. 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:19.000 Support for distributed resource scheduler, distributed power management. 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.000 Storage network I.O. control. 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:27.000 So, basically that will allow us to ensure that certain VMs aren't using up too much storage I.O. 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:31.000 and kind of basically what's called a noisy neighbor and crowding out other VMs 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.000 from getting access to I.O. 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:38.000 We can control and make sure the I.O. is evenly distributed to VMs, 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:42.000 or certain VMs can be given a higher priority to get maybe slightly more 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:45.000 or more than slightly more storage I.O. 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:48.000 NVIDIA grid virtual GPUs. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:57.000 Basically, we can use the NVIDIA grid solution to provide GPUs to virtual machines. 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:03.000 So, if you're doing things like AI, anything that needs a GPU, that NVIDIA grid is supported. 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.000 Proactive HA. 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:11.000 So, proactive HA is a way of using services like ILOs and track information and things 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:16.000 so the system can monitor the health of a host. 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:19.000 And if we see a host is starting to not look very healthy, 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:22.000 our logs in advance are showing that a host is starting to not look healthy, 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:29.000 we can start proactively moving VMs off of that host before it actually were to fail on us. 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:38.000 Accelerate graphics for VMs, so we can give graphic cards to our VDI environments 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:40.000 and things like that. 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:42.000 Distributed service engine, that's kind of a cool thing. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:48.000 So, that uses what's called a DPU or also has been known to be called a SmartNIC. 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:56.000 So, we can have adapters in our hosts that have the ability to on the card process, you know, 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.000 TCP IP and, you know, IP offloading. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.000 That's a pretty basic minor thing. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.000 Also, SSL encryption and decryption can be handled on the card and not in our CPU. 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:12.000 iSCSI, you know, traffic can all be processed and managed basically on that card 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:14.000 and not, again, in our CPU. 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:19.000 So, we can basically offload tasks like network security, like SSL encryption, 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:24.000 decryption, and, you know, iSCSI traffic management and things like that to the adapter card, 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:27.000 the NIC, and not take up CPU time. 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:34.000 And that is all provided to us by using the distributed service engine feature in vSphere 8. 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:38.000 Vendor device groups, basically, we have a PCI switch. 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:42.000 We can group devices together and say, if we're going to assign this device to a VM, 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.000 this other device has to be assigned with it. 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:46.000 They go in pairs. 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:50.000 So, we might have a certain NIC that has to go with a certain, you know, 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:52.000 network and things like that. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:54.000 NVIDIA AI-ready enterprise platform. 00:10:54.000 --> 00:11:03.000 So, basically, then, again, we're talking about using NVIDIA GPUs for AI-type functionality. 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:09.000 So, we can take advantage of the NVIDIA GPUs and get AI work done in our virtualized environment 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:14.000 and get those very, very fast, you know, run times from the GPU and stuff. 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:15.000 And trust authority. 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:19.000 All this stuff is Enterprise Plus licensing. 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:22.000 So, you need to have, you know, distributed virtual switches. 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:27.000 If you need to have host profiles or things like that, you need an Enterprise Plus license, 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:30.000 not a standard license. 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:36.000 So, as we discussed standard and Enterprise Plus licensing, so the on-prem legacy licenses, 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:41.000 we have standard, which allows us to use our ESXi hypervisor, supports vMotion, 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.000 and high availability. 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:49.000 The Enterprise Plus allows us to also use things, all the same things as standard, 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:52.000 as well as our Tanzu Kubernetes grid services. 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:57.000 So, basically, it allows developers to deploy these Kubernetes environments very quickly 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.000 and easily in an automated fashion. 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:02.000 They can request the number of, you know, containers they need and stuff. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:03.000 They can deploy them out. 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:05.000 And then they can do their development work on there. 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:08.000 And when they're done, they can request to have it wiped. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:13.000 And they don't have necessarily, you know, a lot of many things sitting around that are forgotten about. 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.000 They don't have to build these environments by themselves. 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:20.000 It allows developers basically to stand up and tear down environments real quickly 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.000 in an automated fashion. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:26.000 We have support for DRS, distributed resource scheduler, in Enterprise Plus. 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.000 So, DRS is basically just a way of automating. 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:35.000 If we have one host that's real heavily utilized and another host that's not as heavily utilized, 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:43.000 vCenter can see this and it can move VMs from one host to another to help balance out the utilization on the host. 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:47.000 So, you don't necessarily have to worry about what happens if, all of a sudden, 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:50.000 these VMs get really busy and these other ones over here slow down. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:55.000 Maybe at night, you know, these workloads kick off and VMs get busy. 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.000 And other workloads taper off because no one's hitting these databases or something like that. 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:05.000 DRS can balance those out to make sure that the workloads that get busier have the resources they need 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:08.000 and resources that, you know, aren't being consumed 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:11.000 or being reserved for services that aren't using them anymore. 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:12.000 All right. 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:14.000 Just a way of balancing out workloads within your cluster. 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:23.000 A single-row idle virtualization basically is just a way of allowing access to PCI Express-type devices. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:27.000 So, Cloud Connect is the new model. 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:29.000 It's the new thing that VMware is pushing. 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:32.000 So, you still will have your vCenter server. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:33.000 You'll have your E5 host. 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:35.000 All that kind of stuff is the same. 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:38.000 But now we have this vSphere Plus, right? 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:43.000 And the Plus simply means that there's a connector to the VMware Cloud. 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.000 And in there, things like logs can be seen. 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:52.000 It's kind of really helpful for, one, if you call tech support, it gives them instant insight into your environment. 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.000 They don't necessarily have to ask you to go and pull logs and things like that. 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:57.000 They can see what's going on in your environment. 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.000 They can see a history of what's been going on in your environment. 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:02.000 And they can help you troubleshoot things more quickly. 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:05.000 It also allows VMware to send you alerts on things. 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:11.000 They can say, oh, we're seeing that, like, you have these security vulnerabilities in your environment. 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:15.000 You have these configurations that we consider to be a security risk in your environment. 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.000 And we suggest that you fix these things, right? 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:22.000 So those are kind of some of the things that you get with that vSphere Plus, right? 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:28.000 Lifecycle management services, so let you know, okay, you need to update and patch services and things like that. 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:34.000 With vSphere Plus, just not the standard vSphere Plus, you get all the same things as standard, right? 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:39.000 But you also have additional services like developers, additional application performance enhancements, 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:47.000 so basically ways of providing better performance when your development teams are going and creating applications and things like that. 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:54.000 VMware is very big into making sure that developers have the tools that they need to help facilitate quick deployment 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:59.000 and quick development of applications. 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:02.000 So here we have our vCenter server, and we're showing some different levels of vCenter. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:08.000 Basically, the device that you deploy, the application or the appliance you deploy is the same. 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.000 What matters is what license you install on it. 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:16.000 So if you get a vCenter Essentials, you can input up to three hosts in that vCenter server, right? 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:22.000 You're limited to three hosts, which is going to limit the number of beams you can create and some things like that. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:27.000 And you'll have either Essentials or Essentials Plus, so you'll have services like vMotion, 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:31.000 but you necessarily don't have like stores, vMotion, HA, but not DRS. 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:39.000 The foundations up to four hosts, and basically from there, you have either a standard license or you have your Enterprise Plus, right? 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:45.000 You can get a standard, your Enterprise Plus licensing with your foundations. 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:49.000 And vCenter standard, you can get an unlimited number of hosts. 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:54.000 So now you're just buying licenses for all the cores in your environment. 00:15:54.000 --> 00:16:01.000 You're not just buying, you know, a limited number of hosts, certain levels of features at a reduced cost. 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:07.000 You're now buying, you know, full-blown, you know, all the hosts you want to add at a standard license 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:15.000 or all the hosts you want to add at an Enterprise Plus license. 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:21.000 So you can license the software for one, two, or three years, and you're buying licenses for the software. 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:25.000 But then you need to decide what level of support you want to get with that, right? 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:32.000 You can say basic support, and basic support is kind of like an eight-by-five kind of thing, eight hours a day, five days a week. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:36.000 And that's for test dev environments, lab environments. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:40.000 If you're running this really non-critical workload and something happens in the middle of the night or on a weekend, 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:45.000 you're fine waiting until Monday, then that might be a solution for you. 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.000 Production is 24 by 7. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:55.000 And so with the production support agreement, basically you're saying I can call any time, you know, in the evenings, 00:16:55.000 --> 00:17:00.000 weekends, whatever, and get support for whatever's going on in my environment. 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:08.000 That is probably the license that's going to be the most important one to get if you've got critical workloads that you can't have down 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:14.000 for, you know, a day or two while you're waiting for the weekend to get over for VMware support to open up for you. 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.000 So where do you get your licenses? 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:19.000 You can get your licenses from your MyVMware.com. 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:24.000 If you log into MyVMware.com, it will show you all the different versions of vSphere or, you know, 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.000 VMware products that you've licensed. 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.000 You'll also see not only your vSphere licenses. 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:32.000 If you have VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion or if you have Horizon or anything like that, 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.000 all those different products will show up there. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:40.000 Your license keys will show up in there, and there will be links in there to download the software that you purchased. 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:47.000 So what's different in version 7 versus version 8? 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.000 There's quite a few different things. 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.000 So for one thing, distributed services engine is a new thing. 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:56.000 So that's support for the DPUs. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:59.000 There's been enhancement to the vSphere with Tanzu. 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:05.000 Before, there was a bunch of different libraries that you were, you know, managing Tanzu on-prem 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:09.000 or if you're managing it in this cloud or that cloud, there could be different libraries you'd be using. 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:14.000 Now it's been consolidated into one API and one set of libraries, 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:18.000 and that is going to be used for all the different ways you might use this product. 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.000 There's been enhancements to Lifecycle Manager. 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:25.000 So Lifecycle Manager basically has been enhanced, and there's been new features. 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:29.000 So, for example, we can patch multiple hosts at the same time. 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:32.000 We can push out different updates than before. 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.000 So some enhancements to Lifecycle Manager. 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:41.000 Obviously, added support for AI and large language modeling. 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:45.000 So that's a big push with everyone, not just VMware. 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:50.000 Some of those features are, for example, adding support for some of the NVIDIA services and things like that. 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:51.000 Guest OS and workload. 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:55.000 So there's been improvements in the type of virtual hardware that's supported. 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:58.000 So, for example, we have virtual hardware version 20 now, 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:03.000 and that's going to give us access to larger VMs and things than we used to have before. 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:05.000 Resource management. 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:07.000 DRS has been improved. 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:14.000 So we have some new features, some new libraries for, for example, monitoring memory utilization. 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:20.000 And with that memory utilization monitoring, we can now schedule DRS more accurately than we did before. 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:22.000 Security and compliance. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:28.000 So one of the enhancements with security and compliance is TLS 1.2 is supported, nothing lower. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.000 Not 1.1, not 1.0. 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.000 You can't go in there and turn that back on again. 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:38.000 So TLS 1.2 or higher is supported in that sense. 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:45.000 Also, by default, you cannot install software that has not been, or, you know, 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.000 any kind of drivers or anything like that that's not been signed. 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:51.000 Anything that's unsigned will not be able to be installed by default. 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:56.000 You can turn that feature off, but, of course, you get a bunch of warnings and alerts when you do that. 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:00.000 But by default, they only want signed software installed on the host, 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.000 and signed by somebody that is one of their trusted vendors. 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:08.000 So they are, you know, getting serious about making sure that we're installing drivers 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:14.000 and libraries that are, you know, tested and verified by VMware to help make our environment, 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:17.000 one, more secure, and two, you know, more stable in general.