| How The New Microsoft Licensing Affects VMware Environments |
| Monday, 06 March 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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"Microsoft is a huge company with a vast number of products. Licensing can be, to say the least, confusing. The virtualization environment has been particularly challenging in obtaining clarification around licensing. This is probably due, in part, to the fact that Microsoft has previously not viewed virtualization as an alternative to physical computing. We've advised our clients on licensing issues according to our best educated guess – but have been unable to get written confirmation from Microsoft." "This changed, though, in October with a 31-page white paper that Microsoft produced in order to clarify their licensing in a virtualized environment. We were pleased to see not only that all of our assumptions were validated, but that Microsoft also extended licensing benefits beyond what we expected. Unfortunately, the white paper itself tends to still be confusing at times. I've studied the paper at length along with Microsoft tech blogs, the press and Gartner opinions in order to boil down the salient information for VMware ESX Server environments. " Read on here.
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