{"id":9339,"date":"2009-01-14T10:02:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9339"},"modified":"2009-01-14T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"windows-hyper-v-licensing-usage-rights-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9339","title":{"rendered":"Windows Hyper-V Licensing Usage Rights Changes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an <a href=\"http:\/\/dcsblog.burtongroup.com\/data_center_strategies\/2009\/01\/microsoft-licensing-revisions-for-virtualization-are-imminent.html\">article<\/a> that says there will be a change in MS&#8217;s Product Usage Rights (PUR) document.\u00a0 Right now, if you are using internal licensing (and subject to CAL&#8217;s) then you&#8217;ve got some complications.\u00a0 The January 2009 defines a scenario where if you have &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A few Windows 2008 Servers running Hyper-V<\/li>\n<li>Many VM&#8217;s on those hosts running Windows 2003<\/li>\n<li>Many users that are accessing the Windows 2003 VM&#8217;s only (not the Windows 2008 servers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; then you must have Windows 2008 CAL&#8217;s!\u00a0 The author states that MS are changing the PUR and hope to get something out by the end of January 2009.\u00a0 Hopefully they will because this licensing requirements is just plain silly and wipes out the cost benefits of Hyper-V over any other virtualisation product.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credit: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/dcsblog.burtongroup.com\/data_center_strategies\/2009\/01\/microsoft-licensing-revisions-for-virtualization-are-imminent.html\"><em>Data Center Strategies<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an article that says there will be a change in MS&#8217;s Product Usage Rights (PUR) document.\u00a0 Right now, if you are using internal licensing (and subject to CAL&#8217;s) then you&#8217;ve got some complications.\u00a0 The January 2009 defines a scenario where if you have &#8230; A few Windows 2008 Servers running Hyper-V Many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Hyper-V Licensing Usage Rights Changes?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I just read an article that says there will be a change in MS&#039;s Product Usage Rights (PUR) document. 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