Licensing Windows Server 2016

in a Virtual Environment

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 Agenda

1 Introduction

2 Licensing Presentation

3 Example Scenarios

4 Brief Overview of Altaro Hyper-V Backup

5 Q&A

6 Conclusion

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 Introduction

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 Hyperconverged infrastructure for
the SMB with VMware VSAN

About Altaro Software

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 Disclaimers

Software licensing is a legal matter, not a technical concern. The author and presenter of
this work is not a lawyer and no lawyers were consulted when writing this work. Its
contents are intended to be a guideline to aid in comprehension of the concepts of a
specific licensing detail. It does not constitute legal advice or interpretation. Neither the
author and presenter nor Altaro Software, Ltd. are offering legal advice and this work
cannot be construed as such. We cannot be held responsible for any negative outcomes
of the usage of any of the contents, whether it is through an error on our part or a
misunderstanding on yours. For official answers, contact Microsoft Licensing or check
with your reseller. Authorized resellers should have someone on staff that can
authoritatively answer licensing questions. There are very steep fines and bounties
associated with licensing violations. It is worth your time to get official answers.

The most detailed publicly-available material that Microsoft publishes on the subject is
the Product Use Rights document. The clearest publicly-available material that Microsoft
publishes is the Windows Server 2016 Licensing Datasheet. The license agreement that
is included with your software is the only legally binding document. If your compliance is
ever tested in court, the licensing agreement is the only applicable document.

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 Windows Server Hyper-V

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 Before Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

History of Hyper-V

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 Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2 Hyper-V

High performance live migration High performance auto tiered storage spaces Hyper-V over SMB
(compression/RDMA)
Write back cache with spaces Hyper-V over Spaces & ReFS
Zero downtime upgrades
Storage QoS 64 VP, 1 TB VMs
Automatic VM Activation
Shared VHDX for guest clustering SR-IOV for 10+GB networking
Live VM export
VHDX online resize 64TB VHDX
Guest backup improvements
Storage deduplication with live VMs for VDI Hyper-V Replica
Enhanced VMConnect
Hyper-V Recovery Manager (Microsoft Azure Network Virtualization
Dynamic memory host balancing Site recovery)
USB redirection over RemoteFX vGPU
First class Linux support – Dynamic memory, file Azure Backup
system consistent host based backup Hot add/remove of storage
Inbox multi-tenant site-to-site VPN gateway for
RemoteFX over WAN physical & virtual networks VHDX resiliency

Generation 2 Virtual Machines Protected VM Networks/Virtual RSS Dynamic & differencing VHDX performance
improvements
Secure boot in a VM Enhanced LBFO performance with NIC teaming
384 LP, 4TB physical system
User defined meta data for VHDX Hyper-V Extensible Switch
2+ Million IOPS to a single VM
PowerShell for all Hyper-V operations 4K Sector support
Resource Pools
Hyper-V Metrics
NUMA in a VM
Shared nothing live migration
1024 running VMs on a host

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 Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
High performance live migration (compression/RDMA) High performance auto tiered storage spaces Hyper-V over SMB
Zero downtime upgrades Write back cache with spaces Hyper-V over Spaces & ReFS
Automatic VM Activation Storage QoS 64 VP, 1 TB VMs
Live VM export Shared VHDX for guest clustering SR-IOV for 10+GB networking
Guest backup improvements VHDX online resize 64TB VHDX
Enhanced VMConnect Storage deduplication with live VMs for VDI Hyper-V Replica
Dynamic memory host balancing Hyper-V Recovery Manager (Microsoft Azure Site Network Virtualization
First class Linux support – Dynamic memory, file system recovery) USB redirection over RemoteFX vGPU
consistent host based backup Azure Backup Hot add/remove of storage
RemoteFX over WAN Inbox multi-tenant site-to-site VPN gateway for VHDX resiliency
Generation 2 Virtual Machines physical & virtual networks Dynamic & differencing VHDX performance improvements
Secure boot in a VM Protected VM Networks/Virtual RSS 384 LP, 4TB physical system
User defined meta data for VHDX Enhanced LBFO performance with NIC teaming 2+ Million IOPS to a single VM
PowerShell for all Hyper-V operations Hyper-V Extensible Switch Resource Pools
Hyper-V Metrics 4K Sector support NUMA in a VM
Shared nothing live migration 1024 running VMs on a host
Nested virtualization
Shielded VM support VMCX configuration file
VM configuration version & upgrade
vTPM Nano Server Host Support
Runtime Memory Resize
Key Storage Drive for Gen 1 VM Multi-host management (WMI)
Hot / add remove of NICs
Guest VSM (enable Device Guard & Hypervisor Power Management
Production Checkpoints
Credential Guard in a VM) (connected standby works)
Storage Resiliency - All Paths Down
VM Isolation Virtual machine grouping
Online Resize for Shared VHDX
Linux Secure Boot IC Upgrade via Windows Update
Hot add / remove of replicated VHD
RemoteFX improvements HvSocket (Guest-Host)
Rolling Cluster Upgrade
Discrete Device Assignment of GPU TimeSync improvements
Cluster Compute Resiliency
Headless mode support 240 VP, 16TB VMs
Cluster Node Quarantine
Distributed Storage QoS Support for Containers
Device Naming of NIC
REFS Block Resilient Change Tracking (RCT) 512LP, 24TB Host
REFS Fast Fixed Disk Creation Backup improvements Direct Device Assignment
Backup of Shared VHDX

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 Hyper-V Host Scale
Improvements from Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 to 2016

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 Choosing A Host OS SKU In Windows Server 2012 R2

Host OS SKU In Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2012 R2 Overview

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 Choosing A Host OS SKU In Windows Server 2012 R2

Host OS SKU In Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016 Overview

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 Licensing Windows Server Basics

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 License Stacking

• Windows Server Standard edition comes with two virtualization rights. That doesn’t
mean that you need to purchase Datacenter edition if you want to run a third virtual
machine. One more Standard edition license will provide licensing for another two
virtual instances.

• Stacked licenses are just as immobile as unstacked licenses. The

license is bound to the hardware and cannot transfer except in accordance with the
90-day rule.

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 Implications For Clusters

• Because licenses are always bound to a specific piece of hardware, this means that
you cannot use a single license set for multiple computers, even when they are in a
cluster. When a virtual machine moves from one host to another, the destination
host must already have an available license for that virtual machines’ operating
system.

• Consider a three node cluster with eight virtual machines. You’ll need to determine
the maximum number of active guests that every single node might ever possibly run,
and license each node accordingly. If any single node might run all eight virtual
machines, then every single node must either have four Standard edition licenses or
a single Datacenter edition license. If the nodes won’t run that many, then you can
license a smaller amount per host.

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 Other Considerations

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 Automatic Virtual Machine Activation
Simplifying Activation of Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 VMs

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 Licensing Windows Server 2016
Changes

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 Core Based Licensing

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 Windows Server 2016 Licensing

• License all the physical cores in the server

• Minimum of 8 core licenses required for each proc

• Minimum of 16 core licenses required for each server

• Core licenses will be sold in packs of two.

• 8 two-core packs will be the minimum required to license each physical server.

• The two-core pack for each edition is 1/8th the price of a two proc license for
corresponding 2012 R2 editions.

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 LTSB servicing model

This is the traditional servicing model Two Windows Server 2016

Windows Server has always used installation options use this model
5 + 5 years of servicing Server with Desktop Experience

Security and quality fixes only Server Core

No new features or functionality

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 Current Branch for Business (CBB)

Nano Server will What does What doesn’t

be CBB only this change? this change?
Nano Server will not have an The quality, features, and
LTSB with Windows Server 2016 functionality of Nano Server
and therefore not have 5+5
years of servicing Installation of new CBBs are
always controlled by
Nano Server installations will administrators, no forced
have to move forward to future upgrades
CBB releases of Nano Server to
continue to be serviced

Licensing Nano Server will

require Software Assurance (SA)

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 Windows Server Servicing

CBB4 Servicing for a CBB ends

CBB3 after the release of the
2nd future CBB
Features

CBB2

WS 2016 Nano Server CBB1 Server with Desktop Experience and Server Core

WS 2012R2 LTSB

WS 2012 LTSB

Time

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 Example Scenarios

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 Core Licenses

• A single license is applied to two CPU cores in the same physical host

• Each physical processor must have sufficient licenses to cover a minimum of eight
cores (four licenses). This is true even if the physical processor does not have eight
cores. More licenses might be required, depending on physical core count.

• Each physical host must be licensed as though it has at least two physical processors,
even if it has only one. This sets a hard minimum of 16 physical cores (8 licenses) for
any single system.

• Every core in a host must be licensed.

• Windows Server Standard licenses provide for one pOSE and two vOSEs on a licensed
core pair.

• Windows Server Datacenter licenses provide for one pOSE and unlimited vOSEs on a
licensed core pair.

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 Standard Edition

(number of physical cores / 2 rounded up) * (Standard Edition vOSEs / 2) = licenses (at least 8)

Datacenter Edition

Datacenter Edition: (number of physical cores / 2 rounded up) = licenses (at least 8)

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 Example 1

Host: Windows
Server 2016
4 cores Standard
+ 4 cores
= 8 cores

Guests: 2x
Windows
Server 2016
Standard

Necessary License: 8x Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition (2-core)

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 Example 2

Host: Windows
Server 2016
4 cores Standard
+ 4 cores
= 8 cores

Guests: 3x
Windows
Server 2016
Standard

Necessary License: 8x Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition

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 Example 3

Host: Windows
Server 2016
6 cores Standard
+ 6 cores
= 12 cores

Guests: 3x
Windows
Server 2016
Standard

Necessary License: 12x Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition

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 Example 4
Host: Windows
Server 2016
Standard
6 cores 6 cores
+ 6 cores + 6 cores
= 12 cores = 12 cores

Guests: 3x
Windows
Server 2016
Standard

Necessary License: 24x Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition

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 Host: Windows
Example 5 Server 2016
8 cores Datacenter
+ 8 cores
= 16 cores

Guests: 50x
Windows
Server 2016
Datacenter

Necessary License: 8x Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition

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 Host: Windows
Example 6 Server 2016
10 cores Datacenter
+ 10 cores
= 20 cores

Guests: 50x
Windows
Server 2016
Datacenter

Necessary License: 10x Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition

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 Example 7 Host: Hyper-V
12 cores Server 2016
+ 12 cores
= 24 cores

Guests: 56x
Linux

Necessary Windows Server License: None

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 Switch now!

From September 1, 2016, through

June 30, 2017, customers who
switch workloads from VMware to
Hyper-V can get free Windows
Server Datacenter licenses when
buying Windows Server Datacenter
+ Software Assurance.

http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2016
/08/microsofts-new-vmware-
migration-offer-for-windows-server-
2016/

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 Summary

• Windows Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter Edition

• Hyper-V Server 2016 is free

• Automated Virtual Machine Activation is pretty cool

• Core Based Licensing

• Nano Server requires SA

• Hyper-V Containers are Licenses as VMs

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 Q & A – Questions?

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