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Does only Hyper-V ok?

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