per TiB
Catalog row in Vendor License Metrics · Cited
- Unit
- Other
- Aliases
- per TiB (subscription); per TiB license metric; Licensed TiBs; VMware vSAN (TiB); vSAN TiB license; vSAN add-on capacity; per Tebibyte (TiB) license
- Definition
- Software is subscription software licensed on a per TiB license metric. TiB means a unit of physical storage capacity that is equal to 2^40 bytes. (VMware vSAN SPD, February 2026.)
- Counting rules
- Customer must license all raw physical storage that is claimed by Software on all the Servers in the vSAN Cluster. Customer may use Software in Clusters for up to the number of TiBs for which Customer has paid the applicable license fees. Cluster is a software grouping of Servers running vSphere and/or vSAN for the purpose of resource sharing. The SPD does not state a rounding rule for fractional TiB.
- Floors / minimums
- None named on the purchased vSAN add-on per TiB metric. Included VCF/VVF/VCFE vSAN TiB entitlements inherit the parent Core floor and are not this SKU metric.
- Applies to products
- VMware vSAN
- Applies to editions
- add-on
- Product category