Windows 7 Ultimate in The Clouds?
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There was another thread talking about this sometime this week. Windows has no licensing for an end user to deploy to a cloud. Cloud providers can get provider licenses that are billed to MS per hour and allow for cloud-based VDI. But you can never take your license and apply it to someone else's cloud. Not without some serious complications that make it completely impossible. Same basic things that make Windows Server impossible on a cloud.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
When Windows 7 launched, I was a Windows Insider, and they sent me a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
Can I use this in the cloud? It's a full retail copy.
I believe you need license mobility which would require SA. You basically couldn't do it. without paying a ton
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@Aaron-Studer said:
What about if I run it on a VM on my computer?
VM = VDI. So sure, if you get VDI licensing at $100/year or whatever.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I believe you need license mobility which would require SA.
VDI + SA. Maybe the two together would work. Ultimate isn't available with SA, though. Enterprise is the SA applicable version.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
I believe you need license mobility which would require SA.
VDI + SA. Maybe the two together would work. Ultimate isn't available with SA, though. Enterprise is the SA applicable version.
Yeah it would be enterprise only. I'm not even sure they do license mobility for OSes. I believe it's server applications only. No OSes (not even server).
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
What about if I run it on a VM on my computer?
VM = VDI. So sure, if you get VDI licensing at $100/year or whatever.
Nope. You don't need a VDI license for that. It's a single physical instance in that case. Accessing it remotely is when the VDI Comes into play. You still need a full license for the Host and a full license for the VM guest though.
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Bummer
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These are the only products you can get License mobility for:
MS Exchange Server
SharePoint Server
SQL Server Standard Edition
SQL Server Enterprise Edition
SQL Server Business Intelligence Edition
Lync Server
System Center Server
Dynamics CRM Server
Dynamics AX Server
MS Project Server
Visual Studio Deployment
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
BizTalk Server
Forefront Identity Manager
Forefront Unified Access Gateway
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
What about if I run it on a VM on my computer?
VM = VDI. So sure, if you get VDI licensing at $100/year or whatever.
Nope. You don't need a VDI license for that. It's a single physical instance in that case. Accessing it remotely is when the VDI Comes into play. You still need a full license for the Host and a full license for the VM guest though.
Oh you are correct. But you can never access it remotely like you can a normal desktop. You are stuck using local console session only.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
What about if I run it on a VM on my computer?
VM = VDI. So sure, if you get VDI licensing at $100/year or whatever.
Nope. You don't need a VDI license for that. It's a single physical instance in that case. Accessing it remotely is when the VDI Comes into play. You still need a full license for the Host and a full license for the VM guest though.
Oh you are correct. But you can never access it remotely like you can a normal desktop. You are stuck using local console session only.
Depends. If you RDP into it from the same computer it's running on I think that is considered the same device. So there wouldn't be a VDA license needed.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
https://www.vultr.com/docs/windows-custom-iso-with-virtio-drivers
Hmmmmmmm....
Do they sell windows licensing somewhere for their own infrastructure?
Edit: looks like they do at the $40/month plan has a single core cpu.
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I am starting to feel @thanksajdotcom pain.....
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
https://www.vultr.com/docs/windows-custom-iso-with-virtio-drivers
Hmmmmmmm....
Do they sell windows licensing somewhere for their own infrastructure?
Yes, but there installs automatically.
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Why do you want windows in the cloud anyway?
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@thecreativeone91 I just think it would be cool to have a hosted desktop.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@thecreativeone91 I just think it would be cool to have a hosted desktop.
Linux can do that too.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Linux can do that too.
Yeah, I thought about that too. Can't run windows apps then.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Linux can do that too.
Yeah, I thought about that too. Can't run windows apps then.
Which apps do you need? https://www.winehq.org/
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There's also the paid version https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-linux/
