Licensing Mechanism

Licensing Mechanism

ZStack Cloud licensing mechanism is detailed as follows.

Table 1. Licensing Mechanism
Licensing Mechanism	Functionality Covered	Description
/	Community	Provides a simple, ease-of-use, and productized private cloud platform with diversified features for community users. Free of use. Number of compute nodes: not limited. Validity: perpetual. Applicable features: part of the Cloud. No after-sales technical support. Not applicable to product environments. Recommended for the purpose of technical research by community users.
Base License	Standard	Provides a full set of computing, storage, and network virtualization features. This helps to meet the various and flexible business requirements. Features are available after you purchase the Base license. The number of compute nodes that you can manage is calculated by the number of physical CPUs you purchased. Provides a full set of computing virtualization, storage virtualization, and network virtualization features of the Cloud within the licensed period. Allows you to purchase and use add-on features within the licensed period as needed. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period. Applicable to product environments.
	Enterprise Trial	Provides a full set of computing, storage, and network virtualization features, and enhanced features such as GPU, CloudFormation, and auto-scaling. This helps to meet the various and flexible business requirements. 1-year free trial. Provides one host for free. Provides the basic and essential features of the Cloud within the licensed period. Provides all add-on features within the licensed period. No after-sales technical support. Applicable to test environments.
	Enterprise Prepaid	Provides a full set of computing, storage, and network virtualization features, and enhanced features such as GPU, CloudFormation, and auto-scaling. This helps to meet the various and flexible business requirements. Features are available after you purchase the Base license. The number of compute nodes that you can manage is calculated by the number of physical CPUs you purchased. Provides the basic and essential features of the Cloud within the licensed period. Allows you to purchase and use add-on features within the licensed period as needed. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period. Applicable to product environments. Supports Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 and virtual TPM. Provides perpetual licenses. Provides portable licenses to facilitate flexible re-deployment to different servers if required. Provides stackable licenses such that two copies of license can fulfill the license requirement for a server with two processors, four copies of license can fulfill the license requirement for a server with four processors, and so on. Provides at least three-year 7*24 support service including software update and upgrade service for the Server Virtualization and Cloud Management Software. Supports continuous optimization on virtual infrastructure, including: provides recommendation to optimize performance, capacity, and configuration. provides customizable dashboard and report to show predicted resource needs. provides built-in tools for forecasting resource utilization.
Plus License	VMware Management	Manages all the features of vCenter and provides an independent CPU license for VMware compute nodes. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. If the independent license is not issued or the licensed quota exceeds, the KVM-licensed CPUs will be used. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Tenant Management	Provides the full functionalities of Tenant Management, such as project management, organizational structure, users, permissions, and Cloud operations, during the licensed period. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	ARM64 Management	Provides a specified number of ARM hosts within the licensed period, and provides stable support for ARM64 servers. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Backup Service	Backs up VM data to backup servers online in various scenarios, such as local backup, remote backup, and hybrid cloud backup. This enhances the data reliability. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Service	Provides second-level and fine-grained continuous data protection for VM instances, ensuring that VM instances can quickly recover when a failure occurs. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Migration Service	Provides V2V migration to migrate VM system and data from other virtual environments to the current Cloud. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Baremetal Management	Provides a specified number of dedicated physical servers within the licensed period to ensure the high performance and stability of core applications. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Cryptography Security Compliance	Provides applications with cloud security capabilities based on commercial cryptographies, meeting the requirements of commercial cryptography application security assessments. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Elastic Baremetal Management	Provides the license for managing specified number of flexible physical servers during the licensed period, improving the ease of use and flexibility in addition to ensuring the high performance and stability of physical servers. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Alibaba Cloud Hybrid Cloud Management	Provides all features of Alibaba Cloud Hybrid Cloud Management, realizing the interconnection between the control plane and the data plane. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Container Service-CPU	Provides independent CPU license for an enterprise-level container service, enabling you to conveniently use multiple-tenant management, multiple cluster management, resource allocation, CI/CD, microservice governance, and other container-related features. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Container Service-vCPU	Provides independent vCPU license for an enterprise-level container service, enabling you to conveniently use multiple-tenant management, multiple-cluster management, resource allocation, CI/CD, microservice governance, and other container-related features. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	5x8 (7x24) After-Sales Service	Provides 5x8 or 7x24 official after-sales technical support within the specified period. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. The Base license is required to install the Plus license.
	SR-IOV NIC Service	Allows you to generate VF NICs from physical NICs based on the SR-IOV specification and allocate these VF NICs to VM instances. This provides VM instances strong I/O performance comparable to that of physical NICs. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. Provided in the Enterprise Base license by default. A Standard Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	GPU Service	Allows you to passthrough a physical GPU (pGPU) to VM instances or divide a pGPU into multiple virtual GPUs (vGPUs) and distribute the vGPUs to VM instances. This empowers VM instances with strong computing capabilities of physical GPUs. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. Provided in the Enterprise Base license by default. A Standard Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Billing Management	Provides billing methods like that of the public cloud, uses pricing lists to manage billing of resources of various unit prices, and offers billing services to the admin and tenants based on the pricing lists. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. Provided in the Enterprise Base license by default. A Standard Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	CloudFormation	Uses stack templates to batch deploy and configure resources and manage the lifecycle of the resources. In addition, offers designers that allow efficient orchestration of cloud resources. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. Provided in the Enterprise Base license by default. A Standard Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Auto-Scaling Service	Allows automatic scale-in or scale-out of VM instances based on the load balancing result of application workloads, thereby improving resource utilization, lowering maintenance costs, and securing stable business operations. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. Provided in the Enterprise Base license by default. A Standard Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.
	Smart NIC Service	Allows you to use smart NICs to free more compute power of physical CPUs and improve network performance. In addition, allows you to divide a smart NIC into multiple vDPA NICs and distribute the vDPA NICs to VM instances, thereby empowering the VM instances with high I/O performance like that of smart NICs. Features are available after you purchase the Plus license. Provided in the Enterprise Base license by default. A Standard Base license is required to install the Plus license. Provides official after-sales technical support within the specified period.

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