What must you check before moving licensed software to the cloud?
Why A is the answer
Software license implications and financial impact
Licensed software can carry terms and costs that change in the cloud, so check them before moving.
In detail
- Licenses may limit cloud use, and affect cost.
- Check for license costs on cloud cores.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A vendor's license forbids cloud use, and it would have cost a fortune to find that out later.
See it in different ways
flowchart LR A["Assess with Migration Center"] --> B["Plan dependencies and network"] B --> C["Migrate"] C --> D["Test workloads"] D --> E["Optimize"]
mindmap
root((Change))
Migration
Migration Center
Licenses
Finance
CapEx to OpEx
People
Training
Stakeholders
Delivery
Service catalogflowchart TD
Q{"Does the license allow cloud use?"}
Q -->|"Yes"| A0["Compare the costs"]
Q -->|"No"| A1["Negotiate or replace"]Key point: Check licenses first.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. The number of application users per region
- User numbers do not settle license terms.
- C. The current disk size of each server
- Disk size does not settle license terms.
- D. The VM naming convention for the project
- Naming has no bearing on licenses.