Licensing the System Center

System Center 2016 is licensed with two versions, Standard and Datacenter. As with System Center 2012 R2, the same capabilities across editions are differentiated only by virtualization rights. All System Center components are included in these two editions. The main difference between SC 2012 R2 and SC 2016 is the licensing model that has been moved from CPU-based to core-based in order to simplify licensing across multi-cloud infrastructures.