The musings of an IT Consultant » virtual licensing http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant Wed, 01 May 2013 01:19:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Microsoft relaxes licensing around virtual mobility for 41 server applications http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant/microsoft-relaxes-licensing-around-virtual-mobility-for-41-server-applications/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant/microsoft-relaxes-licensing-around-virtual-mobility-for-41-server-applications/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:11:27 +0000 Raj Perumal http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant/microsoft-relaxes-licensing-around-virtual-mobility-for-41-server-applications/ Hi folks, before when you had to move virtual machines from one server to another using technologies like vmotion you had to ensure you had a license for the server applications on both host physical servers. The only way you could move this was if you did it once every 90 days.

Microsoft has now announced that they have removed the 90 day restriction and are allowing moving of virtual machines between host physical servers for 41 server applications. They call it “Application Server License Mobility”.

This is great news for the virtual world and Microsoft has obviously done this only now due to Hyper-V. Like I said before, this competition can only be good for the consumer. When licensing expensive server application products this can save a significant amount of money in your IT budget!

You can read about this further at these links:

Microsoft Press Release regarding the relaxing of it’s license policy

Microsoft: Application Server License Mobility (word doc)

-Raj

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