You do not own the product you pay for (well, to be honest, don’t think this is really an issue).Scale-up means extra money, scale down means less money, with the subscription you are more flexible and therefore more cost-efficient.You don’t have to pay (a huge) amount of money at once = OPEX.With a subscription-based license, you subscribe to Horizon Universal Subscription or Horizon Subscription, which means you don’t own it, but you can use the product and receive service and support as long as you have a valid subscription. You must pay a (huge) amount of money at once = CAPEX.

You only receive support and upgrades as long as you’ve got valid SSP.

You pay for the product once and forget.

You can use the product as long as you want to.

Besides the licenses you can also buy additional support. Perpetual means you buy the licenses and then you own them.

When VMware made Horizon 8 generally available, they have introduced some changes to the licensing model.Īccording to the VMware information – VMware Horizon Licensing – there were 2 License Types available at Horizon 8 GA date:

Vmware horizon costs