Windows Server Licensing Vmware Cluster

To remain eula compliant the license use for vsan for desktop must not exceed the license capacity.

Windows server licensing vmware cluster.

Licensing of windows server products with virtualization technologies and specifically with vmware vsphere clusters is a challenge. Close pricing and licensing overview. Total of required oses the total number of operating system environments oses to be run on the server s. To give you a more consistent licensing experience across multi cloud environments we transitioned from processor based licensing to core based licensing for windows server 2019 datacenter.

Every vm that has sql server or any of its server components such as analysis services and reporting services must be licensed. Download the windows server 2019 licensing datasheet move windows server licenses to azure and save up to 40 percent. Some tools such as sql server management studio do not incur any licensing cost. You can purchase windows server 2016 standard to license all the virtual oses in your virtual cluster if you want.

Things you should know regarding the licensing of windows 2012r2 in a vmware environment. Let s say i wanted to license 10 x windows server 2016 standard virtual servers on 3 x vmware esxi hosts. Therefor i compiled a top 7. The license use for vsan for desktop equals the total number of powered on vms in a cluster with enabled vsan.

Even when using microsoft windows datacenter licenses you still need cals. The number of powered on desktop vms in a vsan cluster must be less than or equal to the license capacity of vsan for desktop. Under microsoft s new policy for a customer to move a workload with an instance of windows server to vmware cloud on aws a new license to windows server should be purchased via vmware s spla on a per host per esxi cluster basis. Licensing sql server per vm is straightforward.