Assigning MS Core Infrastructure licenses

RobP asked a question.

February 23, 2018 at 8:00 AM

Having recently updated to Snow 8.2 I am trying to assign core-based licenses to the relevant servers but have a problem with Microsoft Core Infrastructure Server Suite Datacenter. By definition it covers Server 2012 and 2016 data center, but when I assign these licenses to servers with those OS's on I get the message "No eligible application installed".

Anyone else had this? Anyone know what's 'wrong'?

RobP
8 years ago
An update on this. I have sort of solved the problem myself (yay me) by marking the licenses as having downgrade rights. This then allows me to select the data centre's, clusters and servers with Windows Server 2016 Datacenter installed. However, Snow complains of overlicensing if I assign the licenses per proc/core, as they should be. It only wants once license per server. This is not correct. Or am I missing something?
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- Community Manager (Flexera Software)
  8 years ago
  Hi Robert, if you go to your application and select Edit application, you have the possibility to enter a minimum number of licenses. After these steps, please perform a manual compliance calculation. Does this help for your environment? /marcel
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  - RobP
    8 years ago
    Hi Marcel, Thanks for this. I would never have thought to edit the application for this given that it's the license that dictates whether the license is per core, proc, etc, not the application. Especially as we have SA and therefore we still license per proc for Windows server. Editing the application seems... wrong. Rob
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  - Björn
    8 years ago
    Hello Marcel, to my understanding your approach does resolve the "Overassignment" error message only of to resolve the "No eligible application installed" error you need to activate "Cross edition rights" in the SLM license. Also Microsoft allows downgrades for most licenses, so: The SLM will assign Core Infrastructure licences to e.g. Windows Server 2012 Datacenter-Edition then, as Cross Edition uses all edition of same or lower value. CIS Datacenter has probably the highest value over all other editions: This is required, as CIS DC in SLM SRS catalog requires a registry entry, which is usually not installed: Afterwards you have to decide if you switch the license metric as Marcel recommend. Personally i prefer to sit out the "overassigment error"-metric topic until Snow development finds a way, how to "upgrade the old metric (CPU)" to "new metric (core)" in case of a downgrade. Best wishes Bjo:rn
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Assigning MS Core Infrastructure licenses