hello everyone this is srinivas product manager itam in today's demonstration we'll talk about the optimizations that are part of the product for windows server so let's go ahead before going let's review the basics of windows server licensing now the basics as we know are divided into two parts one is for uh physical layer and one is for the virtual layer on the physical part there are some rules which state that the minimum number of cores that could be assigned to a processor is eight minimum number of course that can be assigned to a server is 16. and then if you see the virtualization rules there's some virtualization rules which are uh licensing rules which are different for windows server standard versus versus data center so for example data center has got unlimited virtualization uh and standard does not however standard allows for stacking of licenses which basically means that if you license the entire server you can have the facility to run two virtual machines if you license the server again fully then you get two additional virtual machines and so on so all these rules are just the base level licensing rules uh that we wanted to tell you before we go into the complex virtualization optimization mechanisms that we're going to talk about so moving ahead on the optimization uh what we do realize is that all the windows server data center has got certain benefits like unlimited virtualization the cost of the data center license is very high approximately five to six times costlier than this standard license as you can see here hence it's of paramount importance that if an organization has both data center licenses as well as the standard licenses which one should they allocate and that allocation of licenses optimally is what servicenow sam does automatically so based on what is cost effective the license assignment is done [Music] uh for the data center license or the standard license as you know that data center provides unlimited virtualization that is if you have the server fully licensed with windows server data center you can run unlimited number of virtualizations hence it makes sense to use these licenses only when the number of virtual machines are really high on the on that cluster hence that determination is done automatically by service now and if the virtualization density is really high then we automatically apply the data center license and if the virtualization density is low then we apply the standard license so you can see that cost effective determination is done automatically by service now however we do realize that organizations will not always have enough data center licenses or enough standard licenses right they would purchase less number of data center licenses than standard and it's very much possible that uh data less data center licenses gets gets consumed as they are assigned hence for those cases where cost effective license assignment is not possible due to unavailability of rights we auto generate recommendations to the customer so these features are newly introduced in quebec and they've enhanced them in the coming releases in rome and san diego so we would really like you guys to test it out and see for yourself how this works with that being said let me go to a quick use case and then demonstrate this functionality on product so this use case is about two clusters as we can see cluster three and cluster 2 having about 32 vms running on them each having windows server standard 2019 standard running on them and the organization has both data center licenses which are about 32 rights and standard licenses which are about 600 plus rights right they have got more number of standard licenses than the data center license but if you see the virtual machines running windows server it's pretty high it's like 32 vms are running on on on these clusters and hence the virtualization density is really high so how does servicenow optimally assign the licenses so as you can see that cluster 2 has got standard license standard windows server standard running and there are about 32 vms running on it data center licenses will be consumed right and as data center licenses are 32 and we license the host 16 and 16 [Music] this will allow for unlimited virtualization to be applied so that means that any number of vms can now run on it so this uh this cluster gets licensed fully now as this license cluster got licensed with data center uh servicenow then automatically assigns the remaining standard licenses to cluster two cluster three even though the virtualization density is high but we do realize that this could be an optimization recommendation to the customer because the customer could have just taken uh 32 data center licenses and assigned them to cluster 3 and [Music] and even though the cost of a unit of data center license is more than a standard unit cost but but still if you do the maths you know 32 licenses of data center are cheaper than um applying about 512 rights uh for cluster three so what we do is that we generate these recommendations to the customer that hey you could have applied uh data center licenses to cluster three and and that would have been an optimal license license assignment so this is what servicenow does and um i'd like to show that on the product so let's go to the product so on the product uh you can see that i've opened up 2019 standard and there is 2019 data center and you can see here that the rights owned or the rights that the customer owned are 32 and the license required are also 32. that means that all those 32 rights got consumed by cluster two and if i go to cluster two i can easily see that there are these two hosts in the machines hosting the cluster and they consume all the rights that is um 32 writes and this means that data center licenses were completely applied to cluster 2. now if i go to cluster 3 it must have uh consumed rights as well and uh i can see that about 512 rights were consumed for uh for cluster three and you can see here that it consumed 512 writes off standard right and you can see the number of installs are really high here about 32 so about 32 vms are running on it and to license 32 vms for a cluster which is having two hosts on it you need about 512 standard rights so at this point of time we know that standard rights have been applied here but that's not the entire story what servicenow does is that it provides this recommendation to you which you can see in the optimization and savings chart and if i go to publisher optimizations i can see that potential savings were optimizing licenses is showing up and if i see this it means that 250 k dollars of uh potential savings the customer could get just by applying data center licenses here so for cluster three uh the virtual machines are 32 the virtualization density is really high and hence although standard was applied the right skills were standard but the recommended license is data center and uh you know the actual spend here with data center will be about about this this much and hence the potential savings will be close to 250k of license cost savings so that's what we wanted to demonstrate thank you so much