1. CPS
Welcome to a new licensing model in SPLA

2. 4/23/2017
Cloud Platform Suite Licensing Intended to be run in highly virtualized environments
Host Licensed Separately
License
The “host” is licensed separately per processor. Includes the Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 “host” features + Windows Azure Pack (WAP)
Guest Per Instance
The “guest” is licensed per instance and can be run on any processor that is licensed for the Cloud Platform Suite “host”
Instance Rights
The “guest” license will give customers the rights to run 1 instance of Windows Server and for the instance to be managed by System Center 2012 R2
Linux VMs
No “guest” fee is charged for Linux VMs running on the Cloud Platform Suite “host”
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3. Host and Guest Licenses
The Host/Guest licensing model requires both host licenses and guest licenses, as well as SALs for users accessing certain guest software functionality. Host licenses are required for your “host fabric,” a collection of physical and virtual OSEs that are configured and operated as a unit to provide virtualization, networking, management, website and file services. Guest licenses are required for your guest virtual OSEs.

4. Assigning Licenses
Before you use the software for your Host Fabric, you must assign to each server in your Host Fabric one host license for each physical processor in the server. Each server to which you assign the required number of licenses is a “licensed host server.”

7. Number of physical processors in the environment
Number of physical processors in the environment. = Host licenses X 2,50$ Number of Instances of Windows Server in the Virtual environment = Guest licenses X 20$

8. Monthly SPLA price for 4 servers with 2 Processors Servers
4/23/2017
Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, Core Infrastructure Suite Datacenter, and Cloud Platform Suite
Monthly SPLA price for 4 servers with 2 Processors Servers
Total cost with WS Datacenter
Total cost with CPS
Total cost with CIS Datacenter
Windows VMs per server
Total Windows VMs
WS DC
CPS
CIS DC
SPLA license reduction: WS DC vs CPS
720,00
100,00
832,00 1
4 VMs
180,00
25,00
208,00
-86%
260,00 3
12 VMs
60,00
21,67
69,33
-64%
820,00 10
40 VMs
18,00
20,50
20,80
Windows Server Standard edition
WS DC only become interesting for this scenario when the partner has more than 40 Windows VM (guests) in this cluster
Note: Prices are rounded and are for example purposes only
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.