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Mr J
Mr J

Reputation: 2963

Can I create a single VM in GCP with my own Windows Server 2019 licence key?

Is it possible to create a single VM (2 cpu) in Google Cloud Platform with an existing Windows Server 2019 licence key?

When I follow this guide below to create sole-tenant VMs in GCP it seems the only node types in the node templates have huge amounts of CPUs? Such as n1-node-96-624 (96CPU) and c2-node-60-240 (60 CPU) etc.

When I spin any of the options up it hits my account CPU limit. I just want a small VM with my own activation key to reduce costs.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/nodes/provisioning-sole-tenant-vms

Upvotes: 1

Views: 797

Answers (1)

guillaume blaquiere
guillaume blaquiere

Reputation: 75910

There is 2 parts in your question:

  • Can you use your own licence on GCP? Yes and No.
    • No because Microsoft licence terms forbid this, except is you use Azure (of course).
    • Yes, you technically can, but if Microsoft performs a controls on your platform, you can have penalties!
  • Sole tenant is the reservation of a physical server, only or you. If you don't want to share the hardware infrastructure with others. And thus, you can only reserve a full server: 60 or 96 cpu, not less.

Upvotes: 2

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