Unit-based license: help needed

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Hello,

my customer has 3 VM (8CPU and 40 GB RAM). He wants to use them as leaf nodes. Is it legit for the free license? The documentation says

The size of the host machine (physical or virtual) determines how many license units will be counted when you add leaf nodes to that host machine to your cluster. The total license units for a host machine are calculated by taking the total RAM of the host machine divided by 32, or the total number of vCPUs divided by 8, and rounding up. Whichever is the greater value (RAM or vCPU) is the number of potential license units on that host machine.

So 40 GB / 32 GB = 1.25. By rounding up, do you mean 2 UNITS? In other words if we want to install 3 hosts working as leaf nodes, can each of them have 40 GB RAM?

Thanks.

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You are limited to 4 units for a free version license, for leaf nodes. Aggregators don’t count. In your example, you’d have 6 units, so it would fail.

You could run each leaf in a VM to constrain the RAM available to us, then it could be made to work, but that is a lot of effort.

If you are in the cloud, you could provision smaller instances. But presumably you are not.