Dell event by Summit Computer Technology LLC - 9 Dec, 2015

1. Software License Compliance
in virtual environments
Bayanzul.L, IT Consulting
Summit Computer Technology LLC,
2015.12.09

2. The 2013-14 Key trends in Software Pricing and Licensing survey was conducted by Flexera Software with
input from IDC’s Software Pricing and Licensing Research division
 Virtualization is gaining wide
adoption within the enterprise
 430 enterprise participants
 56% of respondents were from
North America, 28% were from
Europe, and 7% were from Australia.

3. Planned
 HW/ Equipments
 Virtualization software
 Deployment/ Integration
 Training
Unplanned
 Monitoring
 Virtual server sprawl
 Maintenance
/time slot to patch and reboot/
 Backup policy/ nonparallel/
 New platform hypervisor –
security & support
 License compliance

4.  Software vendors
are aggressively
auditing their
customers.
 The largest
organizations are
being targeted the
hardest.

5.  All major vendors are auditing
but Microsoft is the most
aggressive – and it’s going
after organizations of all sizes

6.  Software true-up costs are
particularly painful for
organizations because they
are largely unbudgeted.

7. Software license non-compliance reasons:
 the ease of duplicating OS’s and apps in VM’s
 the ease of creating/ destroying a VM
 VM mobility— moving from one physical host to another
 the complexity of software license terms for virtual environments
 some licensing models are still incompatible with virtualization.
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
Traditional license is bound to
physical hardware
-Device specific /Windows/
-Processor-based /Oracle/
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

8. per device that accesses the VDI desktops
Microsoft developed a new licensing model for Windows in a VDI.
per Windows installation on VMs
 Microsoft Enterprise Agreement
(EA) covers PCs with SA.
 Users’ home PCs require no
additional licensing because
VDA provides roaming use
rights.
 Core CAL covers Configuration
Manager CMLs or Windows
Server CALs

9.  All products in the Microsoft Servers licensing models are licensed by running instance,
you can create/store any number of instances of the sw on any of your servers or storage media.
 hypervisor independent
Product Max instances
in virtual OSE
Windows Server 2012 Standard Two
Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Unlimited

10. Many Oracle products, including the database, are licensed by physical processor.
Run VM’s on
processor cores
fully licensed for
Oracle
Restrict VM movements
within a cluster to hosts
that are fully licensed for
Oracle.

11. BE RESPONSIBLE for tracking licensing compliance across both physical and virtual realms.

12. You can easily automate tracking and management of all of your software
assets with Dell KACE 1000.
K1000 physical and virtual appliance
K1000 Express – free edition
KACE K1000 Systems Management Appliance
Simplify systems and device management
of "anypoint" systems and network-
connected devices.