When we bring our own Windows licenses (BYOL) to Google Cloud, we must keep track of the number of physical servers that we’re using those licenses on. That’s because Windows Server is licensed by core and not by VM. By using sole-tenant nodes, we can control which nodes our VMs run on. A node is an abstraction of a physical server and at any point in time, a node corresponds to exactly one physical server. But the association between nodes and physical servers can change over time: over ...
