Licenses
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Overview
As a Cloud Service Provider, we also provide certain licenses to our Customers. Certain licenses must be taken out with Orange Business, others may be provided by the Customer, according to the model called BYOL (Bring Your Own License).
In all cases, it is the Customer's responsibility to ensure that he is in good standing with the publisher of the software he uses on the Cloud Avenue platform.
The price sheet specifies the prices and invoicing methods for paid licenses.
When a Customer imports a VM via the VCD interface or the APIs, and that VM includes a Windows or Redhat Operating System, the Virtual Machine will be automatically identified as carrying a billable license, and will be subject to a normal billing the month following its import.
Microsoft licenses
BYOL Microsoft
Orange Business is a Microsoft Authorized License Mobility Partner.
The document giving the list of approved partners can be downloaded here. For the customer, the procedure to follow is described here on the Microsoft site.
Any license activated on the KMS of the Cloud Avenue platform will be automatically invoiced. A license imported in BYOL must be activated on a KMS deployed by the customer.
MSDN licenses
Since MSDN licenses are not eligible for the License Mobility option, this type of license cannot be deployed on VMs hosted on Cloud Avenue.
Microsoft Windows Server
General use case
Windows Server per VM licenses must be purchased as part of the Cloud Avenue offer. It is not possible for a Customer to use, for example, its own SPLA contract, unless the Customer has subscribed to a dedicated cluster to host the VMs to be licensed.
Dedicated cluster use case
In the case of subscribing to a dedicated cluster, the Customer must pay for one license per physical core for each physical server in the cluster. In this case, he may:
- subscribe Datacenter licenses from the Cloud Avenue catalog
- use its own SPLA contract, and only if the SA (Software Assurance) option has been taken out with Microsoft.
Catalogue
Cloud Avenue provides the Customer with a catalog of "templates" pre-installed with a Windows license.
License activation
The license is activated by the Customer directly in the server configuration, once the VM has been deployed. This activation is performed on the KMS infrastructure of the Cloud Avenue platform.
Billing
Licenses are billed per vCPU, prices vary depending on the performance class of the vDC in which the VM is hosted.
Microsoft SQL Server
Catalogue
MS SQL license is available along 3 editions:
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
The SQL Server 2019 license guide is available here.
Billing
Licenses are purchased per vCPU and billed as follows:
- per VM, with a minimum of 4 vCPUs billed
- the VM will be charged an even number of vCPU licenses (rounded up).
BYOL
A client with a portable license in a Cloud environment can utilize their license on Cloud Avenue and must activate the software using their own product activation key and binaries. The templates with the MS SQL product provided by the Cloud Avenue offering cannot be used for BYOL purposes.
Order
Le catalogue public Orange-Windows propose des templates de VM déjà installés et activés, prêts à l'emploi.
Redhat licenses
All RedHat operating system licenses must be purchased under Cloud Avenue.
Billing
The unit of work is the VM, with two prices, depending on the size of the VM:
- VM with 4 vCPU max: Redhat Small license
- VM with more than 4 vCPUs: Redhat Large license
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