If you’ve paid for Azure Arc ESUs for production servers, then you can also use ESUs on disaster recovery servers under the Disaster Recovery benefits that SA and Software Subscription customers are eligible for. In addition, if you’ve got a…
After you’ve created an ESU license and activated it, you need to assign, or link, it to a server which has been connected to Azure Arc. This is done from the Azure Management Portal, where the ESU license is created,…
An ESU license is like a custom order for ESUs where you choose how many cores the ESUs should be applied to, and whether that should be using Standard or Datacenter edition, with physical or virtual cores. This results in…
Slightly bizarrely, to purchase Azure Arc ESUs you need to create an ESU license in the Azure Management Portal. That license can then be activated, which is when billing starts, or it can remain deactivated until you’re ready to use…
Licensing with Azure Arc ESUs Let’s cover a couple of scenarios, where Maroon Balloons are running Windows Server in their own data center. You can see that they’ve got a server with 8 x 8-core processors. There are lots of…
Azure Arc ESUs are purchased in addition to the licenses that have already been purchased to license the Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 workloads themselves, which must be qualifying licenses. Conveniently, ESUs follow the same licensing model as the underlying Windows…
Azure Arc extends the Azure platform to manage resources beyond Azure itself, allowing you to manage and govern resources across data centers, at the edge, and in multicloud environments. Azure Arc-enabled servers specifically focus on managing Windows and Linux physical…
If you’ve paid for 1-year ESUs for production servers, then you can also use the ESU software on disaster recovery servers under the Disaster Recovery benefits that SA and Software Subscription customers are eligible for. In addition, if you’ve got…