Hi,
I've read vmware white paper about the new micosoft's strategy about licences in VM.
If I well understand what is saying in the doc, I won't be able to move my VM within a period of 90 days (without buying new licence or the same VM) ? is this right ?
Is there other great ideas to know about this dear microsoft ?
Thx
>If I well understand what is saying in the doc, I won't be able to move my VM within a period of 90 days (without buying new licence or the same VM) ? is this right ?
That's right. If you have 3 ESX hosts and are using Windows 2003 Standard licences, you would need 3 licenses to be able to vmotion or migrate a VM between all 3 hosts. You could consider W2K3 Data Center licenses (licensed per processor socket). That would provide an unlimited number of Windows VM, but you would still need to license each processor socket in your ESX farm.
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/whitepapers/msoft_addendum.html#c5291
That's the conclusion that I came to after reading the powerpoint from the Licensing session at VMworld.
However, from what I've read it sounds like if you buy Datacenter licences (per socket) for you hosts since that
gives you unlimited virtualization it should get rid of the Vmotion restriction.
>If I well understand what is saying in the doc, I won't be able to move my VM within a period of 90 days (without buying new licence or the same VM) ? is this right ?
That's right. If you have 3 ESX hosts and are using Windows 2003 Standard licences, you would need 3 licenses to be able to vmotion or migrate a VM between all 3 hosts. You could consider W2K3 Data Center licenses (licensed per processor socket). That would provide an unlimited number of Windows VM, but you would still need to license each processor socket in your ESX farm.
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/whitepapers/msoft_addendum.html#c5291
