HPE ROK License - MS Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition - 16 core

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 is scalable and adaptive operating system designed to support the most demanding workloads, provide enterprise level security for your IT infrastructure, and enable cloud migration at you own pace. By combining new layers of security with advanced features to improve productivity and efficiency, it delivers powerful innovations that enable you to use your applications and infrastructure to transform your business.

Today’s most business owners face daily challenges in running their businesses, and one of the more difficult challenges can include managing an IT infrastructure. Windows Server 2016 is designed to help…

• Safeguard your business:
  Windows Server 2016 technologies have protections built-in to help safeguard data across devices and apps onsite or in the cloud, help you recover from business disruptions.

• Improve IT efficiency and productivity:
  To help deliver increased efficiency and maximize your IT investment, Windows Server 2016’s technology gives you the business tools of a much larger company, at the right price.

• Ready for the cloud:
  Whether you are moving to the cloud now or in the future; Get the best of both worlds, Microsoft technologies are designed for hybrid cloud IT environments.

Leveraging a 30 year partnership with Microsoft, HPE helps you maximize advanced features and functionality in Windows Server 2016 to achieve greater security control, modernize your infrastructure to help improve efficiency and productivity, and hybridize your datacenter. In addition, Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers Windows Server OEM licensing for the following editions:

• Datacenter edition ideal for companies of all sizes that have demanding IT workloads, require advanced storage, virtualization and application deployment.
• Standard edition for businesses that need advanced features, support for distributed office locations, and require a flexible way to virtualize their environment.
• Essentials edition for small companies with basic IT needs purchasing a first server; likely small or no dedicated IT department. Essentials edition will be available from HPE as OEM option.

What is HPE ROK?

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Microsoft bring together the world’s leading server hardware and software innovations, applications, resources, and support.

HPE sells Microsoft Server licenses in a number of ways. To ensure the customers purchase the right HPE ProLiant server with the right Windows Server edition, HPE developed the HPE OEM Microsoft Server Reseller Option Kit (ROK) that delivers, through the reseller partners, value pricing, flexible choices, one-stop ordering, and single source support to help you be more productive, achieve more with your investment and keep your business running smoothly.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise resellers can preinstall the Windows Server operating system you choose to deliver a solution that is entirely customized to your needs and immediately ready to use.

How is HPE ROK different from other versions of Microsoft Windows Server?

HPE ROK is the very same Windows Server operating system you would get directly from Microsoft. However, through HPE OEM agreement with Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is able to customize and optimize Windows Server specifically for ProLiant servers and it is BIOS-locked to ensure it can only be installed on ProLiant servers.

HPE ROK may only be purchased with a new ProLiant server. Resellers must affix the COA (Certificate of Authenticity) to the server before shipping to a customer.