New to secondary school licensing

[davidstallwood]

Hi, I have recently taken over running the IT dept at an average size secondary school (2500 students, 3 x Hyper Vs with 15 VMs, 350 Win 10 PCs & approx 75 laptops). I would like to ask fellow users what the best route for Microsoft licensing is. I have recently had licensing renewals from companies for thousands of £££s. What does everyone pay on average and for what? I look forward to your replies.

[psumner1992]

Try Very PC, @johnlevis, they are very knowledgeable when it comes to Microsoft licensing and very good on pricing.

 

From the sounds of it you would be looking at OVS-ES subscription agreement calculated based on staff FTE figures with desktop bundle to cover OS, Office, Core CAL suite plus licenses for 3 x Windows Server DataCentre to cover your Hyper-V’s (licensed by cores, minimum purchase amount of 16 cores and they come in 2 core packs) again covered under OVS-ES, not based on FTE.

 

Unfortunately Microsoft pricing keeps going higher and higher every year.

 

My advice, try and lock in a 3 year price deal to keep the same costs for 3 years.

 

Hope this helps.

Edited March 19, 2019 by psumner1992

[johnlevis]

Thanks for the mention @psumner1992 @davidstallwood, feel free to give get in touch

 

John Levis | Software and Solutions Specialist | VeryPC Tel: 0114 321 8609 [email protected]

[chazzy2501]

so about £3k

[jtotheb]

3 x Windows Server DataCentre to cover your Hyper-V’s (licensed by cores, minimum purchase amount of 16 cores and they come in 2 core packs) again covered under OVS-ES, not based on FTE.

 

If it's 15 VMs total, rather than 15 VMs per Hyper-V host then Windows Server Standard licences should come out loads cheaper. At 14 VMs per host Standard licences come in at 1/3rd the total cost of Server DC for our estate due to the core licencing model now. When it was per physical processor Server DC was much better value.