A little while ago Gabrie van Zanten (aka Gabes Virtual World) asked me a question about how you license Microsoft products in a cloud? Specifically he wanted to know how VMware states “You can bring your own licenses to the cloud”. Lets take a look at this. Currently VMware has two cloud offerings: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) and Dedicated Cloud. The key differences here is that a Virtual Private Cloud is multi-tenant. You are logically separated from other consumers of the service. A dedicated cloud on the other hand is each customer is hosted on physically isolated servers, away from other customers. Its exactly that, its your dedicated cloud. This has an impact on how you license your apps and OS’s. So back to licensing, how does it differ across the two services: Operating Systems – Microsoft requires all customers on multi-tenant public cloud environments to purchase the Windows Server licenses […]
