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.

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. You can purchase windows server 2016 standard to license all the virtual oses in your virtual cluster if you want. Total of required oses the total number of operating system environments oses to be run on the server s. Licensing sql server per vm is straightforward.

Licensing of windows server products with virtualization technologies and specifically with vmware vsphere clusters is a challenge. Host specification since the windows server 2019 datacenter and standard editions are licensed by physical core this tool requires information about the number of servers hosts the number of cpus per server and the number of cores per cpu. 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. 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.

Some tools such as sql server management studio do not incur any licensing cost. Let s say i wanted to license 10 x windows server 2016 standard virtual servers on 3 x vmware esxi hosts. Even when using microsoft windows datacenter licenses you still need cals. The license use for vsan for desktop equals the total number of powered on vms in a cluster with enabled vsan.

Unfortunately it s really ugly. Download the windows server 2019 licensing datasheet move windows server licenses to azure and save up to 40 percent. Every vm that has sql server or any of its server components such as analysis services and reporting services must be licensed. Therefor i compiled a top 7.