Microsofts finally gets virtual licensing

Microsoft did something good today. Today's press release announcing the new and updated licensing schemes for server products running in virtualized environments brings them right back into touch with their customers and with their own Hyper-V virtualization technology they frankly had no choice.

The new licensing scheme basically allows migrations between physical hosts, without having to license each of the hosts as well. In an enterprise setting this is how it has to be, and I sincerely doubt that anyone has really handled this differently before, regardless of the licensing limitation that has been in place until now.

The press release also mentions that extended support for their server products running in virtualized environments, as long as the virtualization vendors validate their products through the Server Virtualization Validation Program

Well done Microsoft. even though it's about time you got it right.

Posted by Christian Mohn aka h0bbel