{"id":120085,"date":"2022-09-12T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T09:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/?p=120085"},"modified":"2022-09-12T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T09:45:53","slug":"flexible-virtualization-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/2022\/09\/12\/flexible-virtualization-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexible Virtualization benefit and Windows Server VM licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft announce that there will be two significant licensing changes coming in October 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, the outsourcing terms will be expanded via the Flexible Virtualization benefit which will allow customers to use their eligible licences with any Authorized Outsourcer&#8217;s shared hardware. Eligible licences are licences purchased through a Volume Licensing agreement with active Software Assurance, or Server Subscriptions purchased through CSP, and Authorized Outsourcers are any partners offering hosted solutions &#8211; apart from the Listed Providers (Alibaba, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second change is an additional licensing option for Windows Server for customers with active SA or Server Subscriptions: rather than being restricted to licensing the whole physical server, these customers will be able to choose to license at the virtual machine level &#8211; both in their own data centres or with an Authorized Outsourcer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, see the partner announcement here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3wFgQdw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3wFgQdw<\/a>, or the customer announcement here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3CF8eaT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3CF8eaT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announce that there will be two significant licensing changes coming in October 2022. Firstly, the outsourcing terms will be expanded via the Flexible Virtualization benefit which will allow customers to use their eligible licences with any Authorized Outsourcer&#8217;s shared hardware. 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