The Windows server R2 Datacenter edition is for customers who want a virtual hybrid of private and cloud environments. The Windows server R2 license provides all remote license holders access to all the product features and enables your business to infinitely expand. The Windows server R2 Standard edition is the solution for customers who want a more physical environment. Posted: July 9, These editions will have the same technical capabilities and be licensed by the same paired-processor model.
The only differences between the editions will be virtualization use rights and license price. Even with the elimination of the Enterprise edition, many organizations may have slightly lower licensing costs.
Client Access Licenses CALs and reassignment rights remain largely unchanged, and the addition of even one WS server in an organization could trigger the need for new CALs throughout the organization. In the past, technical features were a key differentiator between server editions. WS R2 Standard edition did not include the Windows Server cluster feature for "failing over" applications and services across servers.
WS Standard and Datacenter editions each allow an organization to utilize all Windows Server features. The main difference in the editions concerns use rights for virtualization explained below. Enterprise is replaced by WS Standard. Enterprise was targeted at servers dedicated to a single heavy-duty workload, such as a database management system, or servers hosting a light virtualization workload—four or fewer virtual machines VMs.
Customers will be able to license additional servers to run WS R2 Enterprise by purchasing WS Standard and exercising downgrade rights. Web Server was targeted at servers dedicated to a single-purpose Internet-facing Web site, Web application, or Web service. Windows Azure will also offer several options for Microsoft hosting of Windows Server—based Web sites. Windows HPC Server has been eliminated as a separate edition.
Windows HPC Server was targeted at high-performance computing HPC applications that use multiple processors or computers working in parallel for compute-intensive calculations. For customers using Select and Open, accelerating Datacenter purchases could make sense in two scenarios. Customer intends to use Windows Server or earlier.
Thus, customers with no plans to deploy Windows Server R2 could save by purchasing licenses sooner rather than later. Customer wants SA coverage. A customer considering whether to buy a Datacenter license with SA just before Nov. However, if a customer is choosing between buying a license with SA today to get rights to Windows Server R2 and buying the license-only that is, without SA later under the new price, the license-only option is more cost-effective.
For Enterprise Agreement EA customers, the timetable may be somewhat different. The timing of some actions is driven by the Windows Server R2 Nov. Before Nov. Unlike customers who use the Select and Open programs, customers who have EAs have the ability to lock in a price for the duration of an enrollment term. For example, the first time a customer purchases a Windows Server Datacenter license as an Additional Product under any of these enrollments, that license type is added to the customer's EA price sheet at the then-current price, even if the customer purchases only a single unit.
The price thereafter remains unchanged for subsequent purchases through the end of the EA enrollment. Before the end of the current EA enrollment term. When an EA enrollment is renewed, the customer's price sheet is updated to reflect the products available and associated prices as of the date of renewal. Currently, RDS CALs may be used only for session-based remote desktops that are deployed on on-premises servers, or on dedicated servers not shared with other customers of a third-party service provider.
By early , RDS CALs with active SA will also be valid for workloads running on shared multitenant servers of service providers although the VM running the workload must be for the exclusive use of the particular customer. Existing rule. Under current rules, the only way to license session-based remote desktops deployed on third-party shared servers is through the provider's Service Provider License Agreement SPLA.
Microsoft CAL Suites provide software rights to a subset of the Microsoft portfolio of server-based products. To begin using these services, contact your Microsoft Partner, who can begin the provisioning process required to activate each service. In all cases, under a CAL Suite, your use rights with respect to a particular product or online service are the same as if that component were licensed separately.
The only exception is that both per-user and per-device options are available in CAL Suites, even when both options are not available outside the suite. CAL Suites are offered only with Software Assurance coverage, and they therefore provide you with the right to use the most recent version of every product in the suite.
If Software Assurance coverage lapses and you are vested with perpetual rights, use rights are determined by the latest version of the products that were in effect prior to the lapse in coverage. Rights for the online services expire upon lapse of Software Assurance coverage, regardless of whether the CAL Suite is perpetual. CAL Suite Bridges. Retain on-premises access rights.
Satisfy enterprise-wide commitment. Retain enterprise discounts. With CAL Suite Bridges, you receive enterprise and platform discounts at a level that is comparable to that of the suite that is being replaced.
Are available only as a subscription. Are licensed per user. Are enterprise products and receive both enterprise-wide and platform discounts. Licensing tracking Managing deployed Volume Licenses. Software Asset Management SAM is a vital business process that provides a system for effectively managing and optimizing your organization's IT assets. Implementing SAM practices helps you to protect your software investments, recognize what you have, where it's running, and if your organization is using your assets efficiently.
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