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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">IANAL, but this link from Microsoft
makes it sound like Windows Server Standard will work for your
case:<br>
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(Sorry for the terrible link - here is a shorter one
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/1bwce9l">http://bit.ly/1bwce9l</a> )<br>
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From what I read, it appears you can run two Windows VMs for every
standard license. I would strongly suggest running that by your
legal team before taking my word.<br>
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-Carl<br>
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On 07/12/2013 07:35 PM, JR wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:51E0BCEF.60706@gmail.com" type="cite">Greetings,
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I know that this topic has been touched upon in another forum
thread
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mail-archive.com/openstack@lists.launchpad.net/msg20032.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/openstack@lists.launchpad.net/msg20032.html</a>)<br>
but I'd like to get the community's feedback on what I've been
told about windows licensing on openstack by our IT people, who've
had calls with MS.
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Apparently, there is no way to license a single windows VM running
on openstack. The only way to legally (!) license windows in a
cloud is to buy a datacenter license. This license which would
apply to each physical compute node. Let's say that the cost for
that license is $4600. In our environment, since we need high
availability and any particular windows VM would need to run on
any of our 4 compute nodes, we'd be in ~$18400. The above would
allow us to run an unlimited number of windows OSes.
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The problem, for us, is that we only need to run a few odd, but
critical windows instances. $18400 is pretty steep and we'd love
to just pay for the VMs individually. Does anyone know how to do
that? Is it obvious to anyone that my information is (obviously)
incorrect?
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Thanks much,
<br>
JR
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