Defender for Vulnerabilities Management - is add-on available with MDE Plan 2 Defender for Servers?

[hmannila2021]

Core capabilities for Defender for Vulnerabilities Management are in MDE Plan 2.  And you can buy an add-on for Defender for Vulnerabilities Management for the remaining (5) capabilities.

(Or you can buy a Standalone Defender for Vulnerabilities Management.)

However, if you have MDE Plan 2 as part of Defender for Servers, MDE is not an ‘explicit’ license, so will you still be able to get the add-on license for Defender for Vulnerabilities Management? 

Will the licensing requirements for the add-on for Defender for Vulnerabilities Management (Set up Microsoft Defender for Endpoint deployment | Microsoft Learn) recognise that there is an ‘implicit’ MDE Plan 2 license with Defender for Servers?

Or will those customers with MDE Plan 2 as part of Defender for Servers then also need to purchase a license for Standalone Defender for Vulnerabilities Management (and thus effectively duplicating the core capabilities of Defender for Vulnerabilities Management)?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@hmannila2021 yes, you can consider DFS P1 == MDE P2 for the entitled servers.

The licensing requirements for the add-on for Defender for Vulnerabilities Management should recognize that there is an ‘implicit’ MDE Plan 2 license with Defender for Servers.

[#3]

Thank you so much for confirming - really appreciated such a quick response.