[THIN] Re: Licensing Vista for VDI - Are you ready for VDI Maybe not
- From: "Greg Reese" <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 13:18:00 -0500
in other words, they just want us to keep buying desktops from authorized
resellers like Dell and HP and keep sending them money on SA deals.
the only way to know you are correctly licensing Microsoft's products is to
figure out the absolute most expensive scenario possible. That will be the
one that is compliant.
:^)
the ony way I can see to come out ahead is to virtualize with 2003
enterprise and run your five free windows 2003 standard virtually as
terminal servers. Heck, you would almost be better off to VDI everyone
their own 2003 server rather than XP or Vista.
Greg
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Jim Kenzig <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wait as I thought about this XP is licensed per device it is installed on.
> Theoretically if you used PC blades and used 1 copy on each blade you might
> be compliant. There is no way you could do it with multiple users accessing
> one VDI being licensed properly though with out buying VECD and
> downgrading. Vista Business/Ultimate VECD is the only authorized MS OS
> license that lets you virtualize to multiple users and multiple desktops at
> the same time as far as I know.
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> What's the alternative? Use a full blown license for each instance? I
>> have customer who has extra XP licenses they wish to pool in this fashion.
>>
>>
>>
>> Joe
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>> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
>> Behalf Of *Jim Kenzig
>> *Sent:* Friday, May 02, 2008 4:15 PM
>> *To:* THIN; virtualize
>> *Subject:* [THIN] Licensing Vista for VDI - Are you ready for VDI Maybe
>> not
>>
>>
>>
>> If you want to use Vista as a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) heads
>> up. Did you know that only the Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized
>> Desktop (VECD) version of Vista can be used this way. Here is a document
>> that has the skinny.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/d/4/3d42bdc2-6725-4b29-b75a-a5b04179958b/licensing_vista_with_VM_technologies.docx
>>
>>
>>
>> So as I understand it after you pay get the Hyper-V, Or Vmware VDI or
>> Citrix Desktop solution license and server hardware, you'll need to of
>> course pay for the local Windows Vista license the VECD one on the device so
>> you can run a vista VDI. It gets very confusing. But the buttom line is if
>> you aren't running VECD when accessing Vista in a VDI you are violating
>> Microsofts licensing agreement. Hope you purchased the correct version.
>>
>>
>>
>> Are you confused now? I still am. But I always thought that the synonym
>> for Microsoft licensing is "Confusion". That is why we have VARs. LOL
>>
>> --
>> Jim Kenzig
>> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
>> Citrix Technology Professional
>> Blog: http://www.techblink.com
>>
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> --
> Jim Kenzig
> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
> Citrix Technology Professional
> Blog: http://www.techblink.com
>
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