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David Overton Partner Account Manager


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Defining VDI

V-alliance and VDI

General Microsoft licensing

principles for VDI

Key questions you need to answerto enable correct licensing


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PC Thin Client


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Windows and Office

are delivered in a

virtual machine

Windows is

delivered in a virtual

machine and Officeis delivered over

RDS

Windows is

delivered in avirtual

machine and Office

is delivered through

App-V

PC Thin client

Thin clientPC

Thin clientPC


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When making the journey towards desktopvirtualisation, you need to be confident that themove will:

achieve your goals andsupport your strategic objectives

With the guidance of Esteem, a V-Alliance

partner, you will be able to balance the needs ofyour users, IT resources and your organisationusing proven desktop virtualisation solutions.


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V-Alliance solutions offers an integrated end-to-endsuite of technologies; a comprehensive and cost-effective virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) withon-demand applications.

Citrix XenDesktop

Citrix XenAppCitrix HDX

Citrix FlexCast

Microsoft Windows 7

Microsoft App-V, Configuration Manager & OperationsManager

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager


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License the client forWindows and Office

License for server

access

License for any

required management

technologies


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Required for all non-SA devices inside the corporate network

Required for any device outside the corporate network where the user is

not the nominated primary user of device licensed inside the corporate

network

A subscription licence tied to the term of the VL agreement its purchased

through

Not available through the Open program

Counts towards the enterprise-wide

commitment in an Enterprise Agreement

Licenses Windows 7 for use in a

virtual OSE only on the licensed

device


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Thin Client

Microsoft Licensing Product Use Rights,March 2011, Page 120

PC


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Microsoft Licensing Product Use Rights,March 2011, Page 17

PC Thin Client


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Remote Desktop Services

Standard Suite: Restricted Use Rights CAL allowing access to

desktops deployed through VDI

Premium Suite: Full Use Rights CAL allowing access to VDI and

session-based desktops, and use of App-V for RDS

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

VMM Server licence

Special Use Rights CML to manage up to 4 virtual

client OSEs stored on up to 4 different VDI hosts

System Center Configuration Manager

SCCM Server licence

Special Use Rights Standard SML to manage the physical OSE on VDI hosts

System Center Operations Manager

SCOM Server licence

Special Use Rights Standard SML to

manage the physical OSE on VDI hosts


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Thin ClientPC


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Windows Client + SA or VDA

Windows CALs

Company Wide licenses

Office

RDS (potentially)

System Center (potentially)

Office + SA

VDISuite

Core /

e-CAL

Windows Server / Hyper-V 2008 R2 (potentially)

On-Premise Only Including Roaming


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How many devices will access the VDI infrastructureWithin the corporate network?

Covered by Windows Software Assurance

Non-SA devices (BYOD, iPad, Android slates etc)

From outside the corporate network?Where the user is the nominated user of a computer covered by Windows

Software Assurance inside the corporate networkAll others

Whose Broker and Hypervisor will you use?Citrix and Hyper-V

Others

Will you be using an Remote Desktop Services feature?Broker, RemoteFX, RDS protocol, RDS server

Will you be using App-V

Remember that VDA devices count towards company widecommitments


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Windows and Office

are delivered in a

virtual machine

Windows is

delivered in a virtual

machine and Officeis delivered over

RDS

Windows isdelivered in avirtual

machine and Office

is delivered through

App-V

PC Thin client

Thin clientPC

Thin clientPC


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Windows and Office

are delivered in a

virtual machine

PC Thin client

Microsoft System Center

Microsoft VDI

To license delivery of Windows

and Office:

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 withRemote Desktop Services

To license System Center:

SC Config Manager Server, andServer ML

SC Ops Manager Server, andServer ML

SC Virtual Machine ManagerServer, and Client ML

Primary User of PC:

To license Windows and Office for thedevice:

Windows 7 + SA or VDA

Office 2010 Professional Plus

To license the delivery of Windowsand Office:

Windows CAL (device/user)

RDS CAL (device/user)

Primary User of Thin Client:

To license Windows and Office forthe device:

VDA






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Windows and Office

are delivered in a

virtual machine

PC Thin client


Microsoft VDI


and Office:







Primary User of PC:









VDA






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Windows and Office

are delivered in a

virtual machine


Microsoft VDI


and Office:







Primary User of PC:









VDA





AddSA to Office Add SA to Office

+ SA + SA


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Windows and Office

are delivered in a

virtual machine


Microsoft VDI


and Office:







Primary user of a corporate-

owned VDI-licensed device

Licences required for non-corporateowned device:







User not currently licensed for a

corporate-owned VDI-licensed

device

Licences required for non-corporateowned device:

To license Windows and Office for

the device:Windows 7 + SA or VDA






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V-alliance partners provide the bestunderstanding of a Microsoft and Citrixsolution

VDI licensing is only available as a subscriptionDifferent deployment scenarios change thelicenses you require

Bring your own device impacts licensingMicrosoft partners are here to help


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