VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello, I wanted to know how are people dealing with software licensing for VCL? Does anyone have a document or information on how they are dealing with the different vendors when it comes to VCL. For example with Microsoft you are using 1 license for each virtual machine you spin up in a Windows

RE: VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Alex In our case, we really haven't had to do anything special in regards to licensing. For Microsoft products, we have a campus license which allows us to install on any University-owned systems using the campus site key. For many applications we have network license servers, so the VCL

Re: VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Alexander Patterson
Hello Michael, We have %100 of the same model that you are using, we are working on getting everything into complacency and we are running into big walls starting with Microsoft for copies of the OS that is running on the VCL. Have you talked with Microsoft and do they know you are using the VCL

RE: VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Alex Another group within the University handles software acquisitions and they are the ones that deal with Microsoft on such issues. We have the blessing of this group to use the software as we are on the VCL, so from my standpoint we are covered. Mike Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS

RE: VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Hechler, Adam
I had done some research with Microsoft when we were first looking into starting our VCL. In order to access the virtual machines you have to have a VDA license (Virtual Desktop Access) as well as the Windows license. As you said, the Windows license is covered under the Campus License

Re: VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Aaron Peeler
I'm forwarding this for Dr. Henry Schaffer - for some reason his emails were bouncing back. From Henry: A group of us did a presentation on licensing at Educause 2011. Here is the slide deck. http://www.ncsu.edu/it/open_source/cloud-license-educause2011.html We also have an Educause group on

Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-07 Thread Evelio Quiros
Hello, After working a while with VmWare images, we have started experimenting with Xcat bare metal images. To accommodate the added level of complexity with Xcat, I created a separate development environment with VCL and some dell 6100 high density nodes. I have installed RHEL 6.1 with Xcat

Re: Xcat image capture issues

2012-03-07 Thread Andy Kurth
xCAT should be installed on the management node. It doesn't need to be installed on other machines. There are a few different xCAT installation instruction pages on their site. You may want to start with this simpler one:

Re: VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Henry Schaffer
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Andy Kurth andy_ku...@ncsu.edu wrote: Just FYI, the same issues apply to VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, etc. -Andy ... Andy is right - I'm buying VDI software from VMware/Citrix/other vendor. Do I still need Windows VDA? Yes, you do. If you are accessing a

RE: VCL software licensing

2012-03-07 Thread Alexander Kurt Keller
Hi Alex VCL folks, I suspect that some folks may prefer to share detailed information off list due to concerns about publically documenting their compliance approach. We have been grappling with OS and application licenses with regard to our Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) pilot