How to properly license your infrastructure
Making sure you have the right licenses for your infrastructure is hard work. Real hard work. A lot of companies have one or more employees just to make sure they conform to all licensing requirements of their vendors. To make life a little easier I collected the posts we did in the past on this subject.
But before you give away licenses based on the things you read here: Always check with your own licensing expert, since licensing can be very complex.
License info related to the desktop
- How to license Windows 8 in a VMware Horizon View deployment (2013)
- How to license Microsoft Windows 7 for VMware View deployment (2011)
- How to easily License Microsoft Windows with VMware Horizon View (2014)
- How many vCenter Server Desktop entitlements in Horizon View Bundle? (2013)
License info related to servers
- What’s new in vSphere 6 pricing & packaging (2015)
- Microsoft SQL 2014 Licensing in a VMware environment (2015)
- Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect port licensing explained (2014)
- 7 Things You Should Know about licensing Windows 2012 R2 on VMware (2014)
- IBM Cognos licensing in a VMware environment (2014)
- Licensing Oracle in a virtualized environments (2012)
- Microsoft SQL 2012 Licensing in a VMware environment – Part One (2012)
- How to: License Microsoft Windows Server in a VMware environment – Part 2 (2010)
