Comments on: How to License Windows VMs in a Non Microsoft Virtual Environment

By: January 2009 Updates to Microsoft Virtualization Licensing Briefs | VM /ETC

January 2009 Updates to Microsoft Virtualization Licensing Briefs | VM /ETC — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:01:03 +0000

[...] to have Microsoft licensing for the hardware to host Windows guests. I’ve posted before about how using he Datacenter edition may make the most sense for this scenario. The briefs have specific languague for ESX [...]

By: thinking sysadmin » Blog Archive » Links, 8/30/2008: Usable space, licensing Windows

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:47:21 +0000

[...] How to License Windows VMs in a Non Microsoft Virtual Environment: Why Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition may be the best choice. (Seen at blog.scottlowe.org.) [...]

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:33:50 +0000

Thanks for the link Scott!

By: Virtualization Short Take #17 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:13:29 +0000

[...] over at VM /ETC gives us a great breakdown on licensing Windows VMs for a non-Microsoft virtualization solution. He comes to the same conclusion some of my customers have already made: licensing Windows Server [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:50:08 +0000

Another point to note is that licensing is done by socket, not by core. So it makes sense, from a liensing perpective, to buy hosts with multiple cores.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:38:13 +0000

Jason,

Thanks for confirming the concept of this post with real world prices!

By: Jason Willey

Jason Willey — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:34:51 +0000

clicked Post on that one by accident it should have ended :

One thing I noticed when comparing our corporate pricing to “street” pricing, and selected reseller pricing – is that they tend to all be discounted by the same percentage. So while the numbers may end up different, you will still have a consistent percentage of savings.

By: Jason Willey

Jason Willey — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:32:03 +0000

Great news for high density virtualization environments.. not so great news for old school “scale out” environments. For my organization it means that we can deliver software savings for the first time as part of our virtualization model.

I think the day this was announced I heard the collective “DOH!” of every company that deployed their virtualization platform on low density servers.

One thing I noticed when comparing our corporate pricing to “street” pricing, and selected reseller pricing – is that they tend to both discounted by the same percentage. So why the numbers may end up different, you will still have a consistent percentage of savings.