I spent too much time researching this last year…I’d consider
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13090 to be the gold standard on explaining the
topic in an understandable manner.
On Feb 11, 2014, at 4:30 AM, Ricardo Makino
mailto:ricardo.n...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have a doubt about wha
If you want to host Windows VMs you should really look into the Microsoft
Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) program:
http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/en/us/licensing/splabenefits.aspx From
the FAQ : "Microsoft SPLA is the only Microsoft Volume Licensing program
that allows Microsoft produc
Ok understood, thanks for the help!
Regards,
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Ricardo Makino
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Sean Hamilton wrote:
> No, the license is per processor on a physical host. We use VMware, but
> license each host for the instances. No Hyper-V here (just yet).
>
>
> On 11 February 2014 13:47, Ri
No, the license is per processor on a physical host. We use VMware, but
license each host for the instances. No Hyper-V here (just yet).
On 11 February 2014 13:47, Ricardo Makino wrote:
> Ok it's a good idea, but I don't need to run Windows Server as host (a.k.a
> hypervisor), right?
>
> Regard
Ok it's a good idea, but I don't need to run Windows Server as host (a.k.a
hypervisor), right?
Regards,
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Ricardo Makino
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Sean Hamilton wrote:
> From memory, licensing your compute hosts as "Microsoft Datacenter Edition"
> then you can run unlimited Windows in
>From memory, licensing your compute hosts as "Microsoft Datacenter Edition"
then you can run unlimited Windows instances on that host.
If you're worried about having to license every host in your cloud, you
could look at host tags and see if you can ensure instances built with
Windows Templates ar
Hi Everyone,
I have a doubt about what kind of software licensing you use to provide
Microsoft instances in a IaaS environment, such like windows server
instances.
Regards,
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Ricardo Makino
