Microsoft Windows Server virtual core licensing option

[JenMaier]

Microsoft announced the change to the Windows Server virtual core licensing - “With the virtual core licensing option, customers can elect to license Windows Server by the number of virtual cores they are using in virtual machines, making Windows Server easier to license when virtualizing or outsourcing.”

Has this option been made available to the on-prem platform?

[JohnSorensenDK · Accepted solution]

@JenMaier

Flexera is including it into the Windows Server optimization capabilities in Microsoft Windows Server Optimization Report in the upcoming 2022 R2 release:

Thanks,

[mfranz]

Thanks John,

The "Microsoft Server Core" metric with "Minimum cores per VM" of 8 seems to work ok for this new license option.

Will we get an integrated metric in FNMS, aside from that report, that will be able to chose the best option on a per cluster basis?

Best reagrds,

Markward

[nrousseau1]

Hello @mfranz ,

The January SAM Best Practice Webinar (A Windows Server and CIS Optimal License Position in One hour!) shows how to create restricted licenses (the license for VMs will use the Microsoft Server Core with a minimum of 8). Integrating this special count in the Microsoft Management Core license type is not yet planned.

Best regards,

Nicolas