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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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