Licensing a virtualization environment is relatively simple. In this chapter, you learned that licensing a virtualization environment for Windows Server VM is based on accounting the number of processors and VMs in order to decide between the Standard and the Datacenter Editions. You can choose to use Hyper-V Server as a Hypervisor for the virtual environment, especially for Linux VMs. In addition, you can choose to use another Hypervisor, but the Windows Server VM will remain the same.

For the Windows Client VMs in VDI environments, the licensing is relatively simple. Unlike the Windows Server, you have to associate a VDA license for each device accessing the VDI environment. If the company has an SA, there will be benefits for licensing both the Windows Server VMs and the VDI environment.

For the VDI environment, there are some caveats for user-owned devices, and for users from inside and outside the company network.

In the next chapter, we will come back to the technical matter focusing...