Microsoft Server/Management Core (license type)
A license type introduced for Microsoft Windows Server 2016, applicable to the two product editions (Standard and Datacenter). This license type may also be used as Server Management licenses for on-premises installations of Microsoft System Center products (Standard and Datacenter editions).
- If you have procured a Microsoft Server/Management Core license for Windows Server 2016 products, Windows Server CALs (per user or device) or Remote Desktop Services CALs are required to access this server application.
- If you have procured a Microsoft Server/Management Core license for System Center 2016 products, Client Management Licenses (per user or per operating system) are required for managed devices that run non-server operating systems.
- By default, a minimum of 8 processor cores must be licensed for each physical processor
- By default, a minimum of 16 processor cores is required for each physical device (server).
- The Datacenter edition authorizes an unlimited number of product installations on the physical host or on virtual machines attached to it.
- The Standard edition authorizes no more than two installations. With this edition, each additional one or two virtual machines with the product installed require that the full physical server is licensed again.
Provided that your SKUs include your purchase of Software Assurance, it is best practice to allow the Product Use Rights Library (PURL) and SKU library to appropriately set values for these licenses.
Product use rights | Upgrade, downgrade, multiple use, licensing on VM hosts, core limits, and license mobility rights. |
Group assignment |
Group assignment is supported. |
Consumption |
The number of processor cores across all unique physical devices that have installations of one or more of the application linked to the license, and have an identified number of cores. Different editions of the software product vary the way the cores may be counted, as described above. |
Included |
Processor cores, either physical or virtual or both, within a single physical host. Each license entitlement covers one core, with minimal purchases required as described above. |
Compliance | Compliant when Consumed is less than or equal to Total licensed. |
Changing from |
Scoping rules will be deleted. Allocations to computers may be deleted. |
Changing to | You may want to allocate the license to host devices. |
FlexNet Manager Suite (On-Premises)
2020 R2