You can license the products in VMware Aria Suite individually or as part of VMware Aria Suite 2017.
You obtain and use a license type to license VMware Aria Suite products.
| License Type | License Capabilities |
|---|---|
| Individual product license | Some products are available as standalone products that you can license on a per-virtual machine basis by using the product license. Individual product licenses are intended for public cloud workloads or workloads on physical hardware. |
| VMware Aria Suite Portable License Unit (PLU) | With a Portable License Unit (PLU), you can provision and manage workloads across vSphere and hybrid environments, including public and private cloud providers. A PLU is a single SKU that meters workloads in vSphere and hybrid environments, and supports CPU and virtual machine metrics. Each PLU licenses one CPU for an unlimited number of virtual machines or 15 operating system instances. |
See VMware vRealize Suite and vCloud Suite Licensing, Pricing, and PacVMware Aria Automationkaging for details about PLUs.
