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<br><div><div>Le 24 janv. 2013 à 09:10, Davide Guerri <<a href="mailto:davide.guerri@gmail.com">davide.guerri@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">This is a very interesting thread for us :)<br><br>How about desktop versions of Windows? <br>Is there a volume license that can be used with the IaaS?<br><br><br>Davide.<br><br><br><br>On 23/gen/2013, at 21:45, Peter Pouliot <<a href="mailto:ppouliot@microsoft.com">ppouliot@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Site/Volume licensing works too. The KMS is there to enable/enforce the local activiation/licensing.<br><br>The details of any licenses are also affected by the product sku’s that are involved.<br><br>Peter J. Pouliot, CISSP<br>Senior SDET, OpenStack<br><br>Microsoft<br>New England Research & Development Center<br>One Memorial Drive,Cambridge, MA 02142<br><a href="mailto:PPOULIOT@microsoft.com">PPOULIOT@microsoft.com</a> | Tel: +1(857) 453 6436<br><br>From: Willard Dennis [mailto:willarddennis@<a href="http://live.com">live.com</a>] <br>Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:40 PM<br>To: Jay Pipes; <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a>; Peter Pouliot<br>Subject: RE: [Openstack] Windows instance licensing in OpenStack<br><br>See <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/existing-customers/product-activation-faq.aspx">http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/existing-customers/product-activation-faq.aspx</a><br><br>Looks like KMS would be the appropriate means; your MSFT reseller would sell you a KMS license key to use for the appropriate pool of server / app instances, then it is loaded into the KMS server, which then activates the instantiated systems. I checked with MSFT Licensing, the rep said there is no limit on number of uses of a KMS license key, just an aggregate activation threshold. See further <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd197314.aspx">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd197314.aspx</a> for more details.<br><br>We don’t use KMS here, so don’t know about the hairy details, sorry...<br><br>Best,<br>Will<br><br><br>From: Peter Pouliot<br>Sent: January 23, 2013 12:04 PM<br>To: Jay Pipes, <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [Openstack] Windows instance licensing in OpenStack<br><br>Ok,<br><br>I am no MS licensing expert, however. Here is my understanding of it.<br><br>If you are using a windows vm on a hypervisor other than windows server with the Hyper-V role enabled you need to license per vm. <br><br><br><br>If you are using windows server with Hyper-V enable you can license at the hypervisor/server rather than at the vm level.<br><br>This does not include Hyper-V server, which only requires licensing of the windows guests.<br><br>p<br><br><br><br>Peter J. Pouliot, CISSP<br>Senior SDET, OpenStack<br><br>Microsoft <br>New England Research & Development Center<br>One Memorial Drive,Cambridge, MA 02142<br><a href="mailto:PPOULIOT@microsoft.com">PPOULIOT@microsoft.com</a> | Tel: +1(857) 453 6436<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:openstack-bounces+ppouliot=microsoft.com@lists.launchpad.net">openstack-bounces+ppouliot=microsoft.com@lists.launchpad.net</a> [mailto:openstack-<a href="mailto:bounces+ppouliot=microsoft.com@lists.launchpad.net">bounces+ppouliot=microsoft.com@lists.launchpad.net</a>] On Behalf Of Jay Pipes<br>Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:31 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [Openstack] Windows instance licensing in OpenStack<br><br>On 01/23/2013 08:41 AM, Balamurugan V G wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br><br>I wonder how the Windows Licensing would work in OpenStack. Lets say I<br>have a Windows Image which I have already activated. Now if I launch N<br>instances of this image, what are the SO licensing implications? Will I<br>have to license/re-activate on each of the instances after they boot up?<br></blockquote><br>If you use XenServer or KVM, I believe so, yes. I've heard that if you<br>use ESXi you can get some sort of license for all Windows images on a<br>host. Not sure of the details of this, though, I've just heard it<br>through the IT grapevine...<br><br>Best,<br>-jay<br><br>p.s. If you find out any more solid info, please do post back :)<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>Post to : <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br>Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>Post to : <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br>Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>Post to : <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br>Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>Post to : <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br>Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>