Best Answer. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Windows Server expert. Your question is confusing. View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». Popular Topics in Windows Server. Which of the following retains the information it's storing when the system power is turned off? Submit ». Brian Steingraber This person is a verified professional. Mike This person is a verified professional.
Mike wrote: Unless it changed from R2 then a Server Standard license provides two VM licenses for Server Standard on that hardware as long as Hyper-V is the only role running on the host.
That's still the same with as far as the 2 VM per license concept as long as the host only has the Hyper-V role. What changed is in R2 and earlier, each license was good for two physical processors regardless of the number of cores. With , you license the total number of cores, not physical sockets.
I agree, it was confusing, but your answer wasn't. Thank you. The moment I finished reading it clicked. I get it now. The fact that buying a second licence effectually doubles the number of VMs you can run is a bit of information I hadn't seen anywhere else. That's not the case. Your two Windows Server VM's are fully licensed.
The only limitation to the number of VM's you can run is what your hardware can handle, as long as the guests are licensed properly. You could throw Linux Vm's on there if the hardware can handle it and it doesn't cost you anything in Windows licensing. No problem. With , you would purchase one single license to get your two VM's. With , you'd be purchasing a license for a minimum of cores to get your two VM's. Thai Pepper. Obsolesce This person is a verified professional.
This is not to be confused with CALs, however. Separate issue. Robert This person is a verified professional. Maybe they'll do away with core licensing in R2. Since MS already tried that before and people hated it.
Good luck with that. Also, Microsoft isn't the first monkey in the barrel to go this route. Robert wrote: We need a sticky post to answer this consistently I second that. Finding information about this has been difficult. I've spoken with reps at both CDW and Microsoft I had to call multiple times and speak with multiple reps to finally get someone who understood the issue. They did publicize it, and very well too.
The emphasis has been on the core pricing and the 2 core packs. That was never confusing and I found that information immediately. The virtualization rights were stated in numerous locations but they just said "up to two VMs or OSEs" I had to read the actual licence agreement to find out that you can't run other roles along with the hyper-visor and even that language was vague.
The virtualization rights were stated in numerous locations but they just said "up to two VMs or OSEs" I had to read the fine print in the actual licence agreement to find out that you can't run other roles along with the hyper-visor and even that language was vague.
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