Microsoft SQL 2014 Licensing in a VMware environment
I still get a lot of requests to explain how Microsoft SQL 2014 Licensing in a VMware environment works. More and more business critical workloads find their way to the Software Defined Data Center as a virtual workload. For virtual workloads licensing was a bit…
How to easily License Microsoft Windows with VMware Horizon View
How to easily License Microsoft Windows with VMware Horizon View deployment is a big challenge for any organisation. We just want to pay Microsoft what we contractual owe them, nothing more, nothing less. With a new licensing option starting December 1, 2014 you can now…
Want to play truth or dare with the Oracle Sales force? (Updated)
If you want to play truth or dare with the Oracle Sales Force now seems the time again! Back in Juli 2009 I had the first collisions with the Oracle Sales force about licensing Oracle on top of VMware environments. Instead of trying to help…
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect port licensing explained
When you are designing a Cisco UCS Unified Computing environment you will use several components which will work together. One key object in the whole chain is the Fabric Interconnect which connects the chassis, used storage and uplinks to Datacenter Switches like the Nexus 5000…
7 Things You Should Know about licensing Windows 2012 R2 on VMware
Microsoft has adjusted her licensing policy once again regarding the availability of Windows Server 2012 R2 in combination with virtualization and cloud environments. I get a lot of questions regarding how to handle licensing Windows on VMware. Licensing of Windows server products with virtualization technologies…
IBM Cognos licensing in a VMware environment
IBM makes it possible with their licensing to run IBM Cognos on a virtualisation hypervisor like VMware ESXi and make full use of vMotion, HA and DRS. Many IBM products can be licensed as User-Based or Capacity-based. If the product has a server component, it…
How many vCenter Server Desktop entitlements in Horizon View Bundle?
vCenter entitlements in Horizon View The last couple of months we got several questions from customers asking how many licenses they are entitled when they buy a Horizon View 100 pack Bundle. The bundle includes everything a customer needs for a full end-to-end VDI deployment. Horizon…
How to license Windows 8 in a VMware Horizon View deployment
It is a common misunderstanding that, if you buy software licenses you can do anything with it. You will not become the owner of it, you only get the use right of the software under STRICT CONDITIONS. What you may or may not do with…
Licensing Oracle in a virtualized environments
Licensing Oracle servers in a virtualized environment has always been a difficult issue. Edwin wrote an extensive article on that in the past. At VMworld 2012 in San Francisco an Oracle employee made some statements regarding Oracle licensing on VMworldTV but they were…
VMware discontinues vRAM licensing
It has only been two hours from the end of an action packed General session, opening VMworld 2012, but the pinnacle for me was certainly the announcement leading to the ‘Post vRAM era’. Almost one year ago VMware introduced their controversial and much…
Microsoft SQL 2012 Licensing in a VMware environment – Part One
More and more Microsoft SQL Servers are being deployed virtually in a VMware environment, but how can you license them correctly? Microsoft changed their licensing again on April 1st, 2012. With the general availability of SQL Server 2012, the changes around SQL licensing are live….
How to license Microsoft Windows 7 for VMware View deployments
I often get questions about Licensing Windows 7 in a VMware View deployment. I will try to elaborate what is needed in general and for specific scenarios. By understanding how they apply to common VMware View scenarios you can calculate and try to get the…
vRAM licensing with VMware View
Since the announcement of VMware vSphere 5, the attention for the great new features has been swapped by the discussion on the new VMware vSphere 5 licensing model. Because of the processor association it looks complicated and expensive but if you do the math, most…
New VMware licensing explained
With the introduction of VMware vSphere 5, VMware introduces a new licensing model. VMware will retain a per processor model but they removed some restrictions which were in the vSphere 4 licensing model. This is mainly regarding the number of cores per processor and the…
vSphere Licensing and Options Overview
Last week we got a question concerning the licensing options around vSphere and how to choose the correct edition and options from all the flavors and options offered by VMware. So while answering the questions concerning the licensing I thought back to a nice overview…