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MCT

Nov 21, 2017

ASR for Migration from on premise and Windows OS licensing

Hi, When using ASR to migrate a Windows VM from on premise to Azure what, if anything, needs to happen licensing wise? If the server was volume licensed on premise for example is there actua...

stuart eggerton

MCT

Nov 22, 2017

My understanding is no - you need do nothing in this case. The licensing is applied on an honesty system I believe. I suggest you migrate a VM and then check if the "save money" option is set to reduce costs. If not then I believe you can now change this for existing machines.
This link may assist?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/hybrid-use-benefit-licensing

paulp158

MCT

Nov 22, 2017

It sort of assists :)

Let's say I'm using ASR to migrate from a vmware platform and a Windows Datacenter license is 'applied' to the host (obviously not physically applied) to license the Windows guests. I then use ASR to migrate the VMs to Azure. If software assurance is present I can apply that to the VMs by following https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/hybrid-use-benefit-migration-with-asr/

I assume in this situation that the SA agreement needs to be maintained to properly license those VMs in Azure?

If I don't have SA then do those VMs 'convert' to pay as you go pricing?

I'll look at labbing it up but I'll probably need to build something from scratch...

Gaurav Daga
Former Employee
Nov 23, 2017
I assume in this situation that the SA agreement needs to be maintained to properly license those VMs in Azure?

[Gaurav Daga] Yes.

If I don't have SA then do those VMs 'convert' to pay as you go pricing?

[Gaurav Daga] Yes.

There is a detailed licensing FAQ for ASR here for reference - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/site-recovery/.

Thank you

Gaurav Dgaa
- paulp158
  MCT
  Nov 23, 2017
  Thank you