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Prior to going freelance, Brien was a CIO for a national chain of hospitals and healthcare facilities. Types of Windows licenses The type of license you have for your Windows operating system can affect how you activate Windows after you start to use it in a virtual machine. However, doing this requires you to enable something called nested virtualization. About the Author: Brandon Lee.
 
 

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Have tried to get a straight answer on this but see conflicting answers on the internet, I am sure I am not the only person that thinks licensing could be significantly simplified for businesses. Thought someone could guide me in the right direction. Note: users will not be actively remoting in to this OS, it is only to share Sage data across the network. Only one person at a time would access it remotely for maintenance purposes, when needed. If no, what license do I need to purchase?

An example to a purchase link like CDW, etc would be helpful. Right now we plan on just using Hyper-V Replication for the VM may use other commercial replication in the future, just keeping it simple for now , in case the primary server hardware fails. This would be for backup only, not running the machine. I have attached a licensing page from Windows website that may or may not help answer this question.

Just a small point. There are just too many variations. After I worked out who he was, we then spent the next 5 hours talking licensing. Trust me – the current licensing IS simple when compared to what it could be. Just saying! The VM does not, until you access it. Then you license it exactly the same as you would if it were not a replicated VM.

Why are you using Windows 10 for this instead of RDS? It’s not an RDS situation. Sage 50 was Peachtree before the acquisition, a QuickBooks competitor. So, intended for small shops and peer to peer network situations.

I’m a strong advocate of virtualization, but the talk of replication instead of backup and all the complexity of that in a non-Domain environment make me think this project is WAY overcomplicated. Just ‘coz you can, don’t mean you should.

The jump to all this rigmarole, sheesh, from just standing up a physical workstation and serving the database off that with a GOOD backup solution. Needless, when it’s a very limited number of users going to access the accounting software.

How many small shops do just fine with two or three physical machines? It’s not an RDS issue. The OP needs a Windows platform to install Sage 50 on database engine requires Windows and a file share for the clients to access the files. The normal solution to this would be to use a Windows Server. Desktop OS’s aren’t meant to be used this way.

As does QuickBooks, or the other small office accounting systems. It’s wrong, but it’s in the system requirements you can do it this way. I totally understand that – I have customers running Sage 50 and Quickbooks. The problem here is Microsoft doesn’t want Windows 10 virtualized for whatever reason and throws roadblocks in the way if you try to do it without breaking the “rules”. Which is why the likely best path is to do real backups for a physical workstation running Windows 10 – Hyper-V replication is not going to work well with a database app like that and regardless, that is NOT a substitute for backup!

OP is getting way too complicated for a purposely simplistic accounting program. The licensing complication is over and above the rest of the plan, but emphasizes that it’s the wrong path.

Or, better yet, install it on a Server VM instead of messing with 10 at all. That gives you a much more reliable OS and puts it in a VM where you can better manage and back it up. I realize the app says to use 10, but I think we’ve all run this on Server and know that it works. My impression was the licensing costs of Server precluded them using it, else why the retail Win10 license?

Well, OP will have to answer that one. OP said they have Server, so I thought they wanted to use 10 either because they didn’t think Server was an option or because someone told them 10 would work better. Appreciate all the responses, I was not expecting this many, thank you. I agree with the multiple points being shared. Sage 50 support has historically had us put this on Windows 10 or Desktop OS as mentioned above, not saying it is the best way but one that has commonly being shown by support and documentation.

We are looking to upgrade from Sage 50 to Sage Contractor and may hire more in accounting – not a guarantee at the moment. I also agree that “just because you can” doesn’t mean this is the best setup for our situation, we just happen to have several other servers that are not being utilized and are comfortable with Hyper-V. It appears it would be just as easy to just run bare metal clone jobs and file backups from the server to our NAS and restore to an unused server if it failed.

There is something to be said about the keeping things simple as mentioned above. As indicated in one post above, I agree that it looks like Microsoft is steering users to avoid our specific case of virtualization with a Windows 10 instance this is the reason I mentioned in my first post that Microsoft could make licensing simpler to the smaller guys. It appears Windows Server or upcoming would work best if virtualizing in our scenario.

I mentioned in another part of Spiceworks that we have used Windows Server in the past but have used more SaaS with SaaS backup for our specific industry.

We haven’t had a need for folder direction, roaming pofiles, etc as users stay at their station and our file server is a SaaS application we do backup off-site as well. At this point, we only really need a way to host Sage locally, client bare metal backups, server bare metal backups, and file storage backup. If we grow larger, I think we will really look into Windows Server again. If we were dead set on using Windows 10 virtualized it looks like we would need E3 licenses of Windows 10 Enterprise.

It appears whether we go down this path or not, one of the licensing differences between E3 and E5 Windows 10 is one is licensed per user and one is per machine? I would simply share the database out from a workstation and use Sage’s built-in backup utility to automate backups to the NAS.

If you are going to move to Sage Contractor, good on you. I’d recommend planning on joining TUG, there is a Sage community group with monthly webinars. I find them helpful for Sage CRE. That would give you a better place to host Sage 50 for now, and let you work up a backup plan – the free version of Veeam seems suited to your situation. Login or sign up to reply to this topic. Didn’t find what you were looking for? Search the forums for similar questions or check out the Microsoft Licensing forum.

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DragonsRule wrote: Brianinca wrote: Which is why the likely best path is to do real backups for a physical workstation running Windows 10 – Hyper-V replication is not going to work well with a database app like that and regardless, that is NOT a substitute for backup! Brianinca wrote: My impression was the licensing costs of Server precluded them using it, else why the retail Win10 license?

OP construction-IT. Thanks again, as always I appreciate all of your expertise in these areas. I completely misread that. Read these next