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[Balamurugan V G <balamuruganvg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the inputs everyone.

My concern is if the activation/licence key input needs to be done on each
VM after they boot up or its just as simple as having as many licences as
the VMs before hand and nothing needs to be done after the instance boots
up.

Regards,
Balu

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Peter Pouliot <ppouliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
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> openstack-bounces+ppouliot=microsoft.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Jay Pipes
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:31 AM
> To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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