Server 2016 Licensing - Confused Now you will be!

[m25man]

I think we all knew this was coming anyway and whilst they have been preparing the ground for months with pretty charts and detailed explanations has anyone tried to outline a typical UK Schools Licensing requirement using 2016 yet?

 

For years we have been speccing up our servers with as many cores as we can afford to throw at them, not only do they want a slice of your cores but use SQL and they want you to multiply your Cores x Hyperthreading!

 

Thanks M$ for simplifying your Server Licensing Model and making it so easy to understand.

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/04/percore_licences_windows_server_and_system_center/

[DJ-1701]

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

@Boredguy just told me about this. What a pain, thanks for updating us.

[Michael]

Not a big concern at the moment, but when we have hundreds of cores in processors in future this model will probably become unworkable!

[gshaw]

Well done MS, successfully alienating your customer base product-by-product

 

I guess all part of the plan to force people onto cloud by making on-prem ever more expensive to run. This comment on the Reg sums it up well....

 

I do understand that this consistency can make things simpler for people moving workloads around but the goal for MS is to make sure that on-site licensing is not simpler or cheaper than cloud and they are doing that, as with everything else, not by improving or discounting the cloud side but by crippling or increasing the price for onsite installations.

[Boredguy]

Actually it was thanks to @Millgate that I mentioned it to @DJ-1701

I'm now waiting to see how much a 2012R2 licence on Select will be as I might just get a couple extra now for some of our older servers that I might be able to update at the end of Summer before taking the risk of the 2016 per core cost.

[sparkeh]

OVS-ES changes + Win 10 SKUs + Server 2016 licencing =

[Blue_Cookeh]

Can anyone clear this up for us?

 

For example, say at the moment we have x2 2012R2 Standard licenses on EES on two hosts, both then with x2 2012R2 VMs on... does this change with 2016? If so how?