SHARED vs DEDICATED hardware – SPLA licensing

Microsoft licensing terms differ for dedicated (single-tenant) hardware and shared (multi-tenant) hardware.

The first fundamental difference that you need to know when you think about services provider context is the difference between shared and dedicated. Shared, multi-tenant, is the hardware that hosts multiple workloads for multiple end-users. When it’s dedicated, it means only one end customer uses the hardware.

The key thing here that you need to remember is that we’re talking about shared hardware. The dedication of specific virtual machines to a single client doesn’t matter. What matters is if a particular host or a specific server serves workloads for one end-user or maybe you yourselves, internally, or to multiple end-users, multiple end customers.

If it serves multiple end customers, the hardware is shared, or multi-tenant and different licensing rules apply to dedicated and multi-tenant. And this entire training will always differentiate between these two types of infrastructure.

Co-location, private cloud – these are usually dedicated. And when you hear something like “public cloud”, that is obviously shared.

Dedicated hardware may be owned, or it may be rented. It doesn’t matter who owns it. What matters is who’s using it, the user, one user or multiple.

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