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)