System Center - SMSE licensing changesEffective July 1st 2009

Customer feedback on System Center licensing

Simplification: Multiple licensing constructs across Windows Server editions and System Center makes procurement complex. Need for alignment and simplification!

Cost Effective: Continue to help drive costs down. Get More for less, to enable higher Server coverage with System Center management tools

Flexibility: Enable flexible licensing that allows customers to adopt virtualization more broadly and faster

New System Center Server Management Suites

Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE)

------------------------------------Per Server Device, Unlimited OSEs

$1,504*

Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE)

------------------------------------Per Server Device, up to 4 OSEs +

Parent OSE$1,203*

Server Management Suite Datacenter(SMSD)

------------------------------------Per Proc, Unlimited OSEs

$1,504 for 2-proc, $3,008 for 4-proc*

*Pricing is Open NL ERP L&SA 2-years. Pricing for licenses purchased through resellers is determined by agreement between the reseller and customer. Actual prices and payment terms may vary.

Simplification: Alignment with Windows Server licensing

- Introduction of Datacenter tier for System Center with SMSD

- SMSE use rights aligned with Windows Server Enterprise Edition

Cost Effective: Even better now

- 20% price reduction on SMSE to enable broader server coverage with System Center

- Competitive pricing on SMSD

Flexibility: Offers choice of virtualization rights

- SMSD for high-density virtualized servers

- SMSE for physical or low-density virtualized servers

Introducing a new

Datacenter tier “SMSD”

Aligning SMSE use rights with Win Server EE

$648per Physical

$1,304per Host

$648per Physical

$648per Physical

Server ManagementSuite Enterprise (SMSE)

$1,203 per serverup to 4 OSEs + Parent OS

SMSE for Physical Servers - no virtualization

Standalone Cost: $3,248

With SMSE: $1,203

SMSE licensing for Physical Server Management

Configuration

Management(Physical &

Virtual)

End-To-End Monitoring

Server Compliance

Data Protection &

Recovery

*Pricing is Open NL ERP L&SA 2-years. Pricing for licenses purchased through resellers is determined by agreement between the reseller and customer. Actual prices and payment terms may vary.

Server ManagementSuite Enterprise (SMSE)

$1,203 per up to 4 OSEs + Parent OS

Enable customers to accelerate benefits of VirtualizationSMSE enables customers to address virtualized workloads with a broad set of Systems Management capability without incurring incremental cost up to 4 OSEs

$1,203up to 4 OSEsServer Management

Suite Enterprise (SMSE)

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SMSE for Low Density Virtualization

*Pricing is Open NL ERP L&SA 2-years. Pricing for licenses purchased through resellers is determined by agreement between the reseller and customer. Actual prices and payment terms may vary.

Server ManagementSuite Datacenter

(SMSD)

$1,504 per 2-proc server

$3,008 per 4-proc server

Unlimited OSEs

Enable customers accelerate the benefits of VirtualizationSMSD enables customers to address high density virtualization server environments with a broad set of Systems Management capability without incurring incremental cost

$1,504 per 2-proc$3,008 per 4-procServer Management

Suite Datacenter (SMSD)

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SMSD for High Density Virtualization

*Pricing is Open NL ERP L&SA 2-years. Pricing for licenses purchased through resellers is determined by agreement between the reseller and customer. Actual prices and payment terms may vary.

SMSE vs. SMSD: License Comparison

SMSE SMSDSku Purpose Physical and low-density

virtualized serversHigh-density virtualized servers

Products Included

Enterprise Server Management Licenses for:• Operations Manager• Configuration Manager• Data Protection Manager• Virtual Machine Manager

Virtualization Management Rights

Up to 4 OSEs + Parent OSE

Unlimited OSEs

License Type Per Device Per Proc

WS Alignment WS Enterprise Edition WS Datacenter Edition

PriceOpen NL ERP 2-Year L&SA

$1,203 (requires 2-proc min) $1,504 for a 2-proc server$3,008 for a 4-proc server

Which Suite License Do I Need?

• SMSE is best suited for management of physical or low-density virtualized servers with up to 4 guest VMs (4 OSEs).

• SMSD is best suited for management of high-density virtualized servers with more than 4 guest VMs (> 4 OSEs).

*Pricing is Open NL ERP L&SA 2-years. Pricing for licenses purchased through resellers is determined by agreement between the reseller and customer. Actual prices and payment terms may vary.

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