Questions about the correct licensing of Microsoft Azure Local
Hello dear Tech Community, I hope I am posting this in the right place, please move to the correct section if necessary. We have the following customer situation: Planned acquisition of 2 host servers (2x 32 Core AMD EPYC CPU per Server) for Microsoft Azure Local usage with Windows 11 Multihost locally hosted (220 users). Is it possible to avoid the monthly costs for Azure by using the Azure Hybrid Benefit and license regularly via OEM Datacenter + Software Assurance or Open Value Datacenter + Software Assurance? Planned licensing options: Licensing Option 1: (Software Assurance only for SRV license, no Software Assurance for CALs): OEM licenses + Software Assurance for server OS. Use of Azure Hybrid Benefit (Bring your Own License - only with active Software Assurance!) 8x Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Datacenter OEM 16 Core 44x Microsoft Windows Server 2025 5-User CAL OEM 8x Microsoft OPEN Value Windows Server Datacenter 16 Core Licence Software Assurence 3 Years Upfront Cores - OVL - NL Licensing Option 2: Open Value 3Y Upfront Use of Azure Hybrid Benefit (Bring your Own License - only with active Software Assurance!) 8x Microsoft Windows Server Datacenter Edition Software Assurance 16Core 3Y-Y1 OVL 220x MS OVL-NL Windows Server CAL Lic+Software Assurance 3Y-Y1 Licensing Option 3: CSP Subscription Use of Azure Hybrid Benefit (Bring your Own License via subscription license) 12x Windows Server 2025 Datacenter - 8 Core License Pack - 3 Year Term- CSP - ABO 220x Windows Server 2025 CAL - 1 User CAL - 3 Year Term- CSP - ABO Licensing Option 4: Azure Local directly (no CAL´s needed) 128x Azure Local - Monthly service fee - per core per month 128x Windows Server subscription (for guests) - Monthly service fee - per core per month Are the four options I listed legally applicable for the planned project mentioned above? Thank you in advance!
Question: How to allow multiple users on Azure VM
Some partners followed the below article and were able to resolve their issue: https://community.dynamics.com/365/b/dynamics365enterprisecloudfronts/posts/setup-simultaneous-remote-login-for-multiple-users Here are a few other responses from community influencers: Comment: This sounds like a scenario where you are hosting an application/service for end customers, e.g. a SaaS offering, but as rich client where RDP protocol is required. The solution is to enable Remote Desktop Services to allow multiple users working simultaneous on a VM. You could either build a RDS farm in Azure yourself, or you use Windows Virtual Desktop as Gateway/broker Service to publish the application, which I would recommend. You need to use WVD with Windows Server-based session hosts though, not WVD with Windows 10 Multi-Session - this is because of licensing reasons. Since you are providing a hosted service, the access of the end customers would need to be licensed via RDS Subscriber Access Licenses (RDS SALs) obtained via SPLA, for hosted scenarios like this there is no other option then to use SPLA licenses because usage of RDS role is not covered with the Windows VM license that Azure offers. Comment: Does not change that you need RDS and the licenses (RDS CALs - or RDS SALS via SPLA when it is about a hosted solution like described by the OP). Since this thread was revived via the new post, and since there were changes, some additional information: You can now also offer Windows Client OS (Windows 10/11 Multisession) in Azure Virtual Desktop as basis for your hosted, custom services/apps, not only Windows Server how I described. This is possible because there is a new licensing options - AVD remote app streaming: What is Azure Virtual Desktop remote app streaming? - Azure | Microsoft Docs
