@JaredBusch

Right. Like that link says if you run it for a second on another machine you need a license.

I think I read either here (or elsewhere like in the below link) you can legally move the VL around once every 90 days.

So say I only have 1 license and my server dies, I can BMR to new hardware and move the license.

http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13090

What is DC again?

@brianlittlejohn said:

@BRRABill Yes, and CALs

Well that makes it pretty darn simple.

Are there any company wide VL rights you get on the server level? Assuming you can move licenses around? (But only every 90 days, or if that something else?) Restore an image to another machine?

@brianlittlejohn said:

@BRRABill servers don't have upgrade licenses.

So to go from 2008 to 2012 you need to totall y repurchase a license for 2012?

@JaredBusch said:

1. For monitoring distinctly. Very useful if you have different devices plugged in to know their power levels explicitly.

I researched this a bit on their site. Pretty cool.

Monitors on one side, shutting down sooner.

Interesting concept.

So VL is the only real way to go on the server front. Got it.

For desktops, there is only a VL UPGRADE license. For servers, there is a base license, correct? And also an upgrade license?

@scottalanmiller said:

Challenge accepted.

I do not accept challenges. That gets me in trouble.

Has to happen organically.

LOL.

@scottalanmiller

Drinking is one thing I can do well.

So perhaps it would be easier for someone to present a Cliff Notes version of the server version of retail and VL. (And SA, too, since a lot of people seem to like it for servers.)

I can try, but I have a feeling I am going to get a lot wrong.

@scottalanmiller

Well it's an easy checkmark on the ordering page.

Is there a date set, and how may days we talking?

Or is that also to be released later?

Onto SERVERS!

SERVER licenses can be purchased in three ways: OEM, retail, and VL.

OEM server licenses have the same restrictions as desktop licenses in that they are tied to the machine.
QUESTION1: can you backup an OEM server and image it to another OEM server?

@scottalanmiller said:

That all matches my understanding.

That sounds very Zen.

So in a way, VL is tied to a machine as well.

The only license you can transfer is FPP, right?

Last thing on DESKTOPS...

OEM is tied to the machine you purchased it on/for. (Since you can also buy OEM licenses from places.) You cannot transfer the license, not can you restore a backup image from OEM Machine A to OEM Machine B.

What about VL, and FPP?

@xByteSean

I forget ... do you guys do demo models? Not that I do not believe that it works as advertised. I've just learned to always be cautious.

@xByteSean

So you've actually seen failing or failed EDGE SSDs flash amber?

Like I said, I can't test (unless I wanted to spill coffee on one or something, LOL) that myself. Was just wondering if you guys actualy SAW it, or it's just a theory in concept.

Thought as @DustinB3403 said there probably isn't much of a failing state with an SSD. But failed for sure you've probably seen.

@DustinB3403

I just mean in general, if a drive IS failing it shouldn't go offline. Or am I mistaken? I know the drives I currently use (from DELL) blink in a failing state but stay online. Just curious if that has changed, and it if is difference for the EDGE drives.

It's one thing when you have 1000 different types of hardware and things don't work. (Like my recent Windows 10 upgrade that ran into an apparently common issue of the System Reserved partition being full. So sorry, average user.) But for their own hardware?

Crazy...