Cloud Platform Suite

Restricted Use of Software Components

The Cloud Platform Suite software includes the following components: Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server, SQL Server 2012 Standard.

Additional Terms – Cloud Platform Suite (Host)

By acquiring a license for the Cloud Platform Suite software, Customer is not acquiring licenses for the individual software components identified above. Customer may use these software components solely as described in this section.

System Center 2012 R2

Customer must use this component only to manage the Physical OSEs and Virtual OSEs in its Host Fabric and to manage Instances of the Cloud Platform Guest (licensed separately) and/or instances of non-Microsoft operating systems that are hosted on its Host Fabric.

Windows Azure Pack

Customer must use this component for provisioning and deployment of any Physical OSE or Virtual OSE in its Host Fabric.

SQL Server 2012 Standard

Customer may use this component only to support System Center 2012 R2 and/or Windows Azure Pack. Customer may not use this component to create, configure, query, modify or otherwise use a database that is not directly used by System Center 2012 R2 and/or Windows Azure Pack.

Windows Server 2012 R2

Customer must use this component as the operating system for Physical OSEs and Virtual OSE running on its Host Fabric. In any Physical OSE or Virtual OSE that uses this component as the operating system, Customer may use all available functionality in this component to deploy, configure, manage and operate its Host Fabric. In any Physical OSE or Virtual OSE that uses this component as the operating system Customer may, however, run only the following applications solely for the following purposes:

• System Center 2012 R2 for the purposes described above;
• Windows Azure Pack for the purposes described above;
• SQL Server 2012 Standard for the purposes described above.

Customer may not run any other application for any other purpose in any Physical OSE or Virtual OSE in its Host Fabric that uses the Windows Server 2012 R2 component as its operating system.

Additional Terms – Cloud Platform (Guest)

Separate Guest Licenses

Customer must acquire a separate Microsoft Cloud Platform Guest license for each Instance of the Microsoft Cloud Platform Guest hosted on its Host Fabric.

Additional Software

For a list of additional software go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=290987.

Host/Guest

The Host/Guest licensing model requires both host licenses and guest licenses, as well as SALs for users accessing certain guest software functionality. Host licenses are required for Customer’s Host Fabric. Guest licenses are required for Customer’s guest Virtual OSEs.

Assigning Licenses

Before using the software for Host Fabric, Customer must assign to each Server in its Host Fabric one host license for each Physical Processor in the Server. Each Server to which Customer assigns the required number of Licenses is a “licensed host server.”

Software Use

Host Software

Software Customer licenses under host licenses is “host software.” After Customer assigns the required number of host licenses, Customer may run any number of Instances of the host software to deploy, configure, manage and operate its Host Fabric. Use of the host software is subject to the limitations set forth in the Product Specific License Terms section.

Guest Software

Software Customer licenses under guest licenses is “guest software.” Guest software consists of server software and additional software. Customer may run the guest server software only in a Virtual OSE hosted using the Hyper-V virtualization functionality of the Microsoft Cloud Platform Suite on a licensed host server. For each guest software license Customer acquires, Customer may run a single Instance of the guest server software and any number of Instances of the additional software. Additional software may run in Physical OSEs and Virtual OSEs on any number of devices and may be used only with the guest server software.

Cloud Platform Suite (Host)

SAL Waiver

A SAL is not required for other devices to access the Instances of the Cloud Platform Suite software.

Cloud Platform Suite (Guest)

Server Software Access

The license terms applicable to the access of Remote Desktop Services, Application Virtualization for Remote Desktop Services, Rights Management Services and Microsoft Identity Manager functionality in the Windows Server Product Entry apply to access of these functionalities in the Cloud Platform Guest.