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[Carl Perry <caperry@xxxxxxxxxx>]

IANAL, but this link from Microsoft makes it sound like Windows Server 
Standard will work for your case:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.microsoft.com%2Fdownload%2F7%2F7%2F0%2F7707E736-4557-4310-9709-87358F7E6D1A%2FWindowsServer2012VirtualTech_VLBrief.pdf&ei=YMTgUcXNNeeaiAL9g4H4Aw&usg=AFQjCNHVFeEE4c__48Pw3v1M8sHyxh27PQ&sig2=ImQtCewwqrAzwQ_X4aTlMA&bvm=bv.48705608,d.cGE

(Sorry for the terrible link - here is a shorter one http://bit.ly/1bwce9l )

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.

  -Carl

On 07/12/2013 07:35 PM, JR wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I know that this topic has been touched upon in another forum thread 
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg20032.html)
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks much,
> JR
>
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