The System Center 2025 licensing model for Standard Datacenter will be the same as 2022 with server and client management licenses. As with System Center 2022, the 2025 editions will be differentiated by virtualisation rights only. Licenses are required only for the endpoints being managed. No additional licenses are needed for the customers with SQL Server Standard Edition. The server management licensing of System Center 2025 will be based on physical cores. The core-based licensing will align with the Windows Server 2025 model to provide a consistent licensing metric managed VMs.
System Center 2025 will see a 10% price increase across all commercial markets.
