Software License Compliance

in virtual environments

Bayanzul.L, IT Consulting

Summit Computer Technology LLC,

2015.12.09

The 2013-14 Key trends in Software Pricing and Licensing survey was conducted by Flexera Software with

input from IDC’s Software Pricing and Licensing Research division

Virtualization is gaining wide

adoption within the enterprise

430 enterprise participants

56% of respondents were from

North America, 28% were from

Europe, and 7% were from Australia.

Planned

HW/ Equipments

Virtualization software

Deployment/ Integration

Training

Unplanned

Monitoring

Virtual server sprawl

Maintenance /time slot to patch and reboot/

Backup policy/ nonparallel/

New platform hypervisor –security & support

License compliance

Software vendors

are aggressively

auditing their

customers.

The largest

organizations are

being targeted the

hardest.

All major vendors are auditing

but Microsoft is the most

aggressive – and it’s going

after organizations of all sizes

Software true-up costs are

particularly painful for

organizations because they

are largely unbudgeted.

Software license non-compliance reasons:

the ease of duplicating OS’s and apps in VM’s

the ease of creating/ destroying a VM

VM mobility— moving from one physical host to another

the complexity of software license terms for virtual environments

some licensing models are still incompatible with virtualization.

VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

Traditional license is bound to

physical hardware-Device specific /Windows/

-Processor-based /Oracle/

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

per device that accesses the VDI desktops

Microsoft developed a new licensing model for Windows in a VDI.

per Windows installation on VMs Microsoft Enterprise Agreement

(EA) covers PCs with SA.

Users’ home PCs require no additional licensing because VDA provides roaming use rights.

Core CAL covers Configuration Manager CMLs or Windows Server CALs

All products in the Microsoft Servers licensing models are licensed by running instance,

you can create/store any number of instances of the sw on any of your servers or storage media.

hypervisor independent

Product Max instances

in virtual OSE

Windows Server 2012 Standard Two

Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Unlimited

Many Oracle products, including the database, are licensed by physical processor.

Run VM’s on

processor cores

fully licensed for

Oracle

Restrict VM movements

within a cluster to hosts

that are fully licensed for

Oracle.

BE RESPONSIBLE for tracking licensing compliance across both physical and virtual realms.

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