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Licenses

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.

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.

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

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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

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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 customer with a portable license in a Cloud environment can use their license on Cloud Avenue, and will need to activate the software with their own product activation key.

Order

Le catalogue public Orange-Windows propose des templates de VM déjà installés et activés, prêts à l’emploi.

Redhat licenses

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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