Sounds like activation key management would be a great feature for the Windows cloud-init so this could be passed in as meta data.
Tim From: openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern...@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern...@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Balamurugan V G Sent: 23 January 2013 18:12 To: Peter Pouliot Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Windows instance licensing in OpenStack Thanks for the inputs everyone. My concern is if the activation/licence key input needs to be done on each VM after they boot up or its just as simple as having as many licences as the VMs before hand and nothing needs to be done after the instance boots up. Regards, Balu On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Peter Pouliot <ppoul...@microsoft.com <mailto:ppoul...@microsoft.com> > wrote: Ok, I am no MS licensing expert, however. Here is my understanding of it. If you are using a windows vm on a hypervisor other than windows server with the Hyper-V role enabled you need to license per vm. If you are using windows server with Hyper-V enable you can license at the hypervisor/server rather than at the vm level. This does not include Hyper-V server, which only requires licensing of the windows guests. p Peter J. Pouliot, CISSP Senior SDET, OpenStack Microsoft New England Research & Development Center One Memorial Drive,Cambridge, MA 02142 ppoul...@microsoft.com <mailto:ppoul...@microsoft.com> | Tel: +1(857) 453 6436 -----Original Message----- From: openstack-bounces+ppouliot=microsoft....@lists.launchpad.net <mailto:microsoft....@lists.launchpad.net> [mailto:openstack-bounces+ppouliot <mailto:openstack-bounces%2Bppouliot> =microsoft....@lists.launchpad.net <mailto:microsoft....@lists.launchpad.net> ] On Behalf Of Jay Pipes Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:31 AM To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net <mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Windows instance licensing in OpenStack On 01/23/2013 08:41 AM, Balamurugan V G wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder how the Windows Licensing would work in OpenStack. Lets say I > have a Windows Image which I have already activated. Now if I launch N > instances of this image, what are the SO licensing implications? Will I > have to license/re-activate on each of the instances after they boot up? If you use XenServer or KVM, I believe so, yes. I've heard that if you use ESXi you can get some sort of license for all Windows images on a host. Not sure of the details of this, though, I've just heard it through the IT grapevine... Best, -jay p.s. If you find out any more solid info, please do post back :) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net <mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net <mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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