Licensing Management Suites

How to Buy the System Center Server Management Suites

This site helps you to locate pricing and licensing information on the System Center Server Management Suites.

Note: If you are outside of the United States and Canada, you can get pricing information from your local Microsoft office. Find contact information for your Microsoft office on the Microsoft Worldwide Information site.

The Microsoft System Center Server Management Suites
Server Management Suite Enterprise Licensing
Server Management Suite Enterprise Pricing
Before You Buy the Server Management Suite Enterprise
Server Management Suite Standard Licensing
Server Management Suite Standard Pricing
Before You Buy the Server Management Suite Standard

The Microsoft System Center Server Management Suites

Customers increasingly require a comprehensive suite of management tools that provide seamless support for virtual and non-virtual server environments. Microsoft is dedicated to providing complete management solutions that span across the Windows Server family of products. The Server Management Suites provide an easy and economical way for customers to get a complete server management solution for departmental or enterprise server environments.

The Server Management Suite Enterprise provides a complete set of server management capabilities for application and platform management that span physical and virtual environments. Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is included in the Server Management Suite Enterprise. Customers who wish to use Virtual Machine Manager may acquire it as part of the Server Management Suite Enterprise.

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Server Management Suite Enterprise Licensing

The Server Management Suite Enterprise is designed for customers who need a comprehensive solution for server application and platform management across physical and virtual server environments. Customers who are running or who plan to run virtualized environments should consider acquiring the Server Management Suite Enterprise. It includes the following components:

Enterprise Server Management Licenses for System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuration Manager 2007, and Data Protection Manager 2007
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007
Rights to manage an unlimited number of operating system environments (OSEs) on a single physical server

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Server Management Suite Enterprise Pricing

Note: All prices reflect pricing for purchases within the United States and are in U.S. dollars. The prices listed are estimated prices and reflect the starting prices available in Volume Licensing programs; reseller pricing can vary. The Server Management Suites are not sold through retail channels.

Pricing

Product	Price*	Features
System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise	$1,290 U.S.	Comprehensive solution for end-to-end management of physical and virtual server environments that includes the Enterprise Server management licenses for Operations Manager 2007, Configuration Manager 2007, and Data Protection Manager 2007; the license for Virtual Machine Manager 2007; and, rights to manage an unlimited number of operating system environments on a single server.

* Price listed includes the license and two years of Software Assurance. Software Assurance coverage is required to license the Server Management Suites.

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Before You Buy the Server Management Suite Enterprise

Your next steps for buying the Server Management Suite Enterprise should be:

Review the System Center Server Management Suite FAQ.
Learn more about our licensing programs:
- Volume Licensing - For information about the different volume licensing programs available for companies interested in more than five licenses of one or more System Center products, visit the Microsoft Volume Licensing Services site.
- Microsoft Software Assurance - Available to volume licensing customers only, the Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) program gives you automatic access to new technology and provides productivity benefits, support, tools, and training to help deploy and use software efficiently. Learn more about features and benefits and find out how to acquire SA at the Software Assurance for Volume Licensing page on the Microsoft Volume Licensing site.
Find a Microsoft reseller
- To acquire licenses, visit the Microsoft Resource Information Center to locate your licensing program representative.
- If you are outside the United States and Canada, visit the Microsoft Worldwide Information site.
- Contact your local Microsoft U.S. sales office.
- Call (800) 426-9400 from the United States or call (877) 568-2495 from Canada to speak with a Microsoft representative today.

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Server Management Suite Standard Licensing

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Standard Server Management License (OML)
Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 Standard Server Management License (ML)
System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Standard Server Management License (ML)

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Server Management Suite Standard Pricing

Note: All prices reflect pricing for purchases within the United States and are in U.S. dollars. The prices listed are estimated prices and reflect the starting prices available in Volume Licensing programs; reseller pricing can vary. The Standard SML and Server Management Suite Standard are not sold through retail channels.

Products	Prices*	Features
System Center Server Management Suite Standard	$468 U.S.	Monitoring, troubleshooting, audit collection, reporting, continuous data protection, and configuration management for Storage/File/Print and Networking workloads, the base operating system, system hardware, and other management agents on the system.