Microsoft Volume Licensing
Licensing Options
for Partner Hosted
Cloud
Agenda
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Some definitions
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Partner hosting scenarios
SA
RDS CAL
+ SA
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Dedicated hosting
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License Mobility through Software Assurance
r) via
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/software-assurance/license-mobility.aspx
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RDS User CAL extended rights
workloads.
. Hosting Partner is the licensee and providing the application
Dedicated or Shared VM
Dedicated VM
Hosting Partner
Shared Infrastructure
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Dedicated VM
Management and monitoring
Alternatives 2 & 3
*Must be dedicated for answer 3
**Must be dedicated for answers 2
and 3
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SPLA - Shared hosting
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Using Software Services Reseller and
Datacenter Provider
Contoso, Inc.
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Using Software Services Reseller and
Datacenter Provider (1 of 3)
.
Contoso, Inc.
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Using Software Services Reseller and
Datacenter Provider (2 of 3)
Contoso, Inc.
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Using Software Services Reseller and
Datacenter Provider (3 of 3)
Contoso, Inc.
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Using a Data Center Outsourcer
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End customer scenarios
EC+SA
EC
app
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app
Web workloads – Content publicly available
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Web workloads – Customizable content
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Self-hosted ISV applications
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Resources
https://partner.microsoft.com/40019020
https://partner.microsoft.com/40012010
http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/en/us/default.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/software-assurance/license-mobility.aspx
https://partner.microsoft.com/download/40196723
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Thank you
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LM through SA vs. SALs for SA
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Description
Allows customers to deploy server licenses with Software
Assurance (SA) to a Service Provider’s cloud.
Customer keeps CALs with SA on premises.
Customer may deploy server licenses back to its on-premises
servers (following reassignment rights).
Customer may not use server licenses on both on-premises
and Partner hosted cloud at the same time.
Description
Allows customers to leverage their investment on productivity
on premise access licenses with SA in order to run workloads
in a Hosting Partner’s cloud.
Supports cost effective multi-tenant deployments.
Hosting Partner provides access licenses (SAL for SA) to
Customer to access workloads running on Hosting Partner’s
environment.
Customer keeps access licenses acquired from VL agreement
on-premises.
Workloads running on Hosting Partner’s environment are
different from the ones running on Customer’s on-premises.