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Following the GA release of Migrate to Virtual Machines v5 for VMware, AWS, and Azure, Migrate for Compute Engine v4.11 no longer supports AWS and VMware sources. Migrate for Compute Engine v4.11 for Azure will reach end-of-support on April 30th, 2024. We recommend that you switch to Migrate to Virtual Machines v5 to continue using these features.

VM OS license support

Migrate for Compute Engine supports the Windows and Linux OS licensing schemes described in this topic.

When you migrate your VMs using a wave, you can specify the licensing scheme for your VM's OS in your wave's runbook.

Operating system	Default behavior	Optional license
Linux	No license. If you don't specify a license string, no license will be used for your migrated VM.	Premium license (PAYG). Compute Engine supports premium licenses for a subset of Linux OSes. Premium licenses are billed on a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) basis. For more, see Using premium Linux OS licenses.
Windows	PAYG. For a PAYG license, leave the `license:os` runbook column empty.	BYOL. To use your own Windows license, specify the correct license string listed in this topic. For more about specifying BYOL for a migrating VM, see Migrating to sole-tenant nodes.

Linux license strings

For the Linux operating systems listed in the following table, you can specify a license string to use a premium license. Add the string to the runbook's license:os field. If you don't specify a license string, the default is no license.

The license:os value you use in your runbook should correspond to the OsType field's value. The value for OsType is queried from the source platform and when creating the runbook.

For more, see Using premium Linux OS licenses.

For more information from the OS providers, see Red Hat Cloud Access or SLES On Demand.

Linux OS version	License type	License string
RHEL 6	BYOL	RHEL 6 only supports BYOL licenses. It does not support a PAYG license.
RHEL 7	PAYG	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/rhel-cloud/global/licenses/rhel-7-server`
RHEL 8	PAYG	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/rhel-cloud/global/licenses/rhel-8-server`
SLES 11	PAYG	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/suse-cloud/global/licenses/sles-11`
SLES 12	PAYG	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/suse-cloud/global/licenses/sles-12`
SLES-SAP 12	PAYG	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/suse-sap-cloud/global/licenses/sles-sap-12`
SLES 15	PAYG	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/suse-cloud/global/licenses/sles-15`
SLES-SAP 15	PAYG	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/suse-sap-cloud/global/licenses/sles-sap-15`

Windows license strings

For the Windows Server operating systems listed in the following table, you can specify a license string to use a BYOL license. Add the string to the runbook's license:os field. If you don't specify a string, the default is used.

For more, see Migrating VMs to sole-tenant nodes.

Windows Server version	License type	License string
2003	BYOL	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/windows-cloud/global/licenses/windows-server-2003-byol`
2008 R1	BYOL	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/windows-cloud/global/licenses/windows-server-2008-dc-byol`
2008 R2	BYOL	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/windows-cloud/global/licenses/windows-server-2008-r2-byol`
2008 R2	PAYG (Default)	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/windows-cloud/global/licenses/windows-server-2008-r2-dc`
2012	BYOL	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/windows-cloud/global/licenses/windows-server-2012-byol`
2012 R2	BYOL	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/windows-cloud/global/licenses/windows-server-2012-r2-byol`
2012 R2	PAYG (Default)	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/windows-cloud/global/licenses/windows-server-2012-r2-dc`
2016	BYOL	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/windows-cloud/global/licenses/windows-server-2016-byol`
2016	PAYG (Default)	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/windows-cloud/global/licenses/windows-server-2016-dc`
2019	BYOL	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/windows-cloud/global/licenses/windows-server-2019-byol`
2019	PAYG (Default)	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/windows-cloud/global/licenses/windows-server-2019-dc`

Microsoft SQL Server PAYG license strings

For the Microsoft SQL Server versions listed in the following table, you can specify a license string to use a PAYG license. Add the license:msql column to the runbook, then specify a license string.

For more, see Runbook reference.

Year	Edition	URI
2012	Enterprise	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2012-enterprise`
2012	Standard	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2012-standard`
2012	Web	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2012-web`
2014	Enterprise	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2014-enterprise`
2014	Standard	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2014-standard`
2014	Web	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2014-web`
2016	Enterprise	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2016-enterprise`
2016	Standard	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2016-standard`
2016	Web	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2016-web`
2017	Enterprise	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2017-enterprise`
2017	Express	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2017-express`
2017	Standard	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2017-standard`
2017	Web	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2017-web`
2019	Enterprise	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2019-enterprise`
2019	Standard	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2019-standard`
2019	Web	`https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/windows-sql-cloud/global/licenses/sql-server-2019-web`