Cost savings (hours)
Total cost for volume licensing
Total cost for OEM licensing
OEM vs. Volume
Calculate how much money and time you can save with preinstalled Windows Server® 2022 from Dell Technologies OEM licensing, compared to volume licensing and manual installation.
For a more detailed analysis of your potential savings, contact your Dell Technologies sales representative.
Choose between two representative Dell™ PowerEdge™ server models: the PowerEdge T550 tower server and the PowerEdge R750 rack server.
Dell PowerEdge server model
Enter the total number of processor cores you need to license.
Total number of CPU cores
Total savings for OEM licensing
Enter the total number of servers on which Windows Server 2022 Datacenter needs to be installed.
Number of servers being installed
The number of minutes per server necessary to install Windows Server 2022 using OEM licensing.
(The time shown here is drawn from the Prowess Consulting report, "Testing the Value of Dell™ PowerEdge™ R750 Servers with Windows Server® 2022 Preinstalled.")
Installation time: OEM licensing (minutes)
The number of minutes necessary per server to install Windows Server 2022 using volume licensing.
(The time shown here is drawn from the Prowess Consulting report, "Testing the Value of Dell™ PowerEdge™ R750 Servers with Windows Server® 2022 Preinstalled.")
Installation time: Volume licensing (minutes)
Time savings for OEM licensing (hours)
License prices are from Dell Technologies and Microsoft as of January 2023. Default time figures obtained by Prowess Consulting through independent testing. For additional details about test methodology and system configuration, see the research report at:
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