Once submitted, Microsoft will confirm your eligibility and communicate your verification status to you and your chosen Authorized Mobility Partner. We will then verify that you have eligible licences with active Software Assurance and send confirmation that we have completed this verification process. In short, this allows your customer who purchased Exchange with Software Assurance to transfer that license into your datacenter. Last, make sure your customers have active software assurance for all licenses used for license mobility! This is a unique benefit available only on Azure. Essentially there are three times your end customer should complete and submit a License Verification form: This is from the verification form guide.
They do not own any software; they would need the hoster to supply the software licenses. There are no major licensing changes. For other cloud providers program name is License Mobility because it actually allows moving licenses between on premises datacenter and the cloud provider. The information you provide here will be submitted to Microsoft. After the 90-day period, you can move the licensed software back to your premise. This now expands your rights to allow any number of instances of that software to run in any number of virtual machines within that farm. Jon Dehen wrote: I understand all of that pretty well I believe.
Jon Dehen wrote: Oh, and I also think we'd need to license based on the physical processor count of our server farm? What about in Windows Azure? In this article, we will break each one down to explain how they work and the options available. Yes, so for example we are creating a pool that contains two physical hosts XenServers , called A and B. Azure does this via their website. I just feel this is a big miss by providers and customers. I accept all responsibility for the content of my posts.
For a list of supported software on Azure, go to. This is the least likely scenario, since dedicating an environment just for a desktop license makes little sense. However, licenses can be reassigned sooner if the licensed device or server is retired due to a permanent hardware failure. I said this before, if Microsoft allowed all products to be installed on a shared hardware infrastructure, why would they have license mobility? Organizations paying to use a public cloud typically get access to Windows Server through the Service Provider Licensing Agreement that the service provider signed with Microsoft. The Office bits on Office 365 has issues with installing it on server. To encourage Office 365 sales of course! There is no law of the land that prohibits this. Each 2-processor license or each set of 16-core licenses are entitled to two instances of up to 8 cores, or one instance of up to 16 cores.
Anyhow, I will get clarification and update here when I hear back. The following are key requirements for using License Mobility through Software Assurance with your eligible Volume Licensing products. On just the one as you seem to have, you'll be throwing way pretty good licenses, as they are not transferrable between hosts. In addition, you must submit a new verification form when you renew your agreement and when you deploy any previously unverified products. Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the , and code samples are licensed under the.
Or is licensing still handled on a per server level? With Software assurance it all goes down to the license type. It would encourage your end customers to invest in Office with Software Assurance and offer a more complete desktop as a service solution. Amazon lays out the eligibility requirements to use Microsoft's mobility licensing option on. They need to have a current Microsoft Services Provider License Agreement in place to accept your assigned licenses and deploy them as appropriate to your chosen hosted deployment solution. What that means then is that in order to be properly licensed amongst the hosts in a cluster, you would have to have enough licenses assigned to each of those nodes to cover the peak number of virtual instances that could be moved to that server at any given time. Posted here through WordPress share What is License Mobility? Is it just out of convenience or do they provide you strategic value? In fact, out of 10 random selected partners on the list, none have a written statement on mobility. Option 2 Your customer decides to bring the software but the hoster will provide the infrastructure in a dedicated environment.
Using that string, the first thing that appeared in the list for me was this - Get the scoop straight from the horse's mouth. For a complete definition of license mobility, check out my previous blog post. Since this is not completed, you the service provider can be on the hook. It does not apply to Windows licensing. Again, here I go being repetitive if Microsoft allowed customer owned licenses to be installed in shared environments than why would they create license mobility? Instances run under a particular license must be run in a single server farm and can be moved to another server farm, but not on a short-term basis 90 days or less. There is only one option to install customer owned licenses in a shared environment and that is license mobility. Nevertheless, that license is indivisible and cannot span physical machines, as you may not also use a single license on two servers without virtualization.
Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Thus, the reason for a volume license copy of Office. A license is transferred from the physical system to a new system and stays there for at least 90 days. You start looking around the web and notice that other service providers seem to charge less than what you can charge your customers. When you use: Deploy with an Authorized Mobility Partner To take advantage of License Mobility, you can deploy on or work with any Authorized Mobility Partner. Conclusion Do you ever wonder why you report licenses to your current reseller? A new form is required each time you deploy additional licenses.
Summary I hope this brings a bit more clarity. More resources: Work with your licensing procurement team or your Microsoft representative or preferred reseller to understand your license position. Hi, I have a virtualization infrastructure with clustered 2 hosts, and I want to know how to license Windows server that is installed on my virtual machines. When you transfer licenses, they can only transfer the licenses away from your data center once every 90 days. The licensing mobility program also got mentioned at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Convention in Los Angeles, which took place last week. However, you have a 180-day grace period during which you can use licenses both on-premises and in the cloud to facilitate migration.