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# Appendix 1 Licensing

Licensing is handled in several ways for VMware Server Virtualization.

**VMware licensing:** VMware vSphere licensing is leased through Rackspace Technology and installed during provisioning.

**Windows licensing:** Customers can provide their own Windows OS and SQL licensing or lease Rackspace Technology-provided Windows licenses. If you lease Windows licensing from Rackspace Technology, we activate the license.

**Red Hat licensing:** Customers can provide their own OS licenses or lease a Rackspace Technology-provided Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) OS license. If you lease OS licensing from Rackspace Technology, we can activate it with the Rackspace Technology Red Hat Network (RHN) server.

**Database licensing:** Customers can provide their own database licenses or lease Rackspace Technology-provided database licensing.