How does windows server licenses gets calculated

[Chirag Jain]

Hi All,

I have an entitlement for windows server 2019 datacenter, in which minimum attributes I have set 16, but as soon as reconciliation is completed when I check the license metric result it is licensing the VM not the host there are many VMs on the host which are shown under unlicensed installs which is wrong. Can someone please help me here?

Thanks & Regards,

Chirag Jain

[Chirag Jain]

Hi Shrinivas, As you mentioned that for windows server Licensing i need to select Per with CAL but customer has provided us Per Core license metric, so isn't that worng metric if I'll select per core with cal. Can you please help me out here it's urgent for me.

[Srinivas Ramanu]

Pls select core (Cal) only foe Windows Server

[Cons Austria]

Hi, follow up question. 

In an audit scenario, we will need to satisfy 3 main requirements. 

1. License Position Report - available in SN
2. Windows Server Estate - available in SN
3. Calculation - how we mapped #2 to report #1

Now #3 is quite easy for Physical servers but how do we do this for Virtual? If I refer to the samp_entitlement_result_list, for VMs used by is mapped to either ESX or Cluster which is understandable, but how do we show the actual VMs for these? To actually make the connection between #1 and #2

From samp_license_optimization_summary it only shows the number of VMs.

[Chirag Jain]

Hi Srinivas,

Thank you for the help! Just one more question in docs it is mentioned that 4.59 is used for marking the host or cluster density in property com.snc.samp.windowserver.license.threshold. I just want to understand in what way this 4.59 is working in identified the density of the cluster/host. Please find the link for docs as well (https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/quebec-it-asset-management/page/product/software-asset-management2/concept/windows-cluster-optimization.html).

Regards,

Chirag Jain

[Daniel Slocum]

Hi Chirag,

@Srinivas Ramanujaiah is the right person to help you.  Thought I'd draw your attention to a Windows Server licensing blog post of his here in the Community where he describes Windows Server licensing with a strong amount of detail. Hope the two of you work this out.

Daniel