Standard licenses can be stacked on the physical server for additional virtualization rights. Option 3: License Cloud Platform Suite. The difference? There are 2 main reasons this is a sweet spot for hosters who are eligible to use the SKU, the first one being the most relevant-. Microsoft is discontinuing the Cloud Platform Suite SKUs and as a result has not rolled out a Core licensing model for the product line. System Center server management licensing is based on the number of physical cores on the servers under management, consistent with the Windows Server model.
Consistent licensing model for server management and client management, respectively. Core-based licenses for server management. User-based or operating system environment OSE —based license for client management. Licenses required only for endpoints being managed. System Center server management licenses have two editions differentiated by virtualization rights only:. There is no differentiation between the types of workloads you can manage with either edition.
The only difference between the editions is the number of operating system environments OSEs that you can manage when all physical cores on the server are licensed. Datacenter edition allows for the management of any number of OSEs virtual machines or Hyper-V containers when all physical cores on the server are licensed.
Standard edition allows for the management of up to two OSEs virtual machines or Hyper-V containers when all physical cores on the server are licensed. Datacenter and Standard edition both allow for the management of any number of Windows Server Containers. The System Center Server Management components are part of an integrated offering to create and manage private cloud environments.
Which is better and how do you decide between them? If you look at the features available in the free hypervisor versions, Hyper-V provides more functionality than ESXi. It is possible that all the virtualization features you require are available in the free version of Hyper-V or VMware.
However, VMware and Hyper-V implement features differently, and you may find paying for vMotion to be a better fit than free Live Migration. SC uses a Management License model that charges based on the number of cores and managed operating system environments OSEs. For example, the following comparison shows the cost for System Center to manage 12 OSEs on either 2 or 6 processors, using both Datacenter and Standard licenses:. Datacenter licenses are more cost effective in environments where you are running more than 2 OSEs per physical processor, while Standard licenses become more cost effective at 2 or fewer OSEs per physical processor.
As a result, Standard licenses can be less expensive if your VMs require most or all of the virtual processors, while Datacenter licenses will be less expensive for VMs provisioned with fewer processors.
The technologies need to be compared based on required virtualization features and the costs of licensing those features for the host servers in your environment.
An organization with Windows Datacenter edition and System Center Datacenter edition could deploy unlimited VMs across the licensed host s and leverage any and all Hyper-V capabilities. System Center , like Windows , is licensed based on the number of active cores in the host. The pricing starts at a minimum of a dual processor configuration with 8 cores per processor:. Scott Lowe helps you make sense of the convoluted System Center licensing.
If your IT department needs to overhaul and centralize the organization's management and monitoring capabilities, you might consider adopting Microsoft's line of System Center licensing.
Microsoft has added eminent flexibility to System Center licensing but, unfortunately, with that flexibility comes significant complexity. To help IT pros make sense of the convoluted System Center licensing, I put together this guide of general information. But before you commit to anything, I strongly encourage you to work with your reseller's Microsoft licensing specialist.
Here is a brief overview of the System Center products I'll discuss in this article. This is not intended to be a full product brief, but rather to serve as a reminder for each product's purpose. SCCM is a client-focused tool that provides centralized administration of software updates, software deployments, and more.
SCCM requires at least two licenses to be compliant. License cost is per managed user or OSE depending on the licensing program under which the product is obtained, except with the client ML, which can be on a per-device or a per-user basis.
SCOM is an infrastructure- and server-focused tool that provides powerful monitoring services. The following table from Microsoft outlines the various capabilities of the SCOM management licenses.
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