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Available disk space: 1 GB. Software requirements: Microsoft Windows operating system supported version of the operating system is determined by the requirements of Administration Server. Microsoft Management Console 2. Microsoft Windows Installer 4. Having been through this discussion at Length with Chris Microsoft he linked me this fantastic PDF that does go into the detail you'd need. This was of particular concern for us because VMware's documentation listed it, but XenServer's was a little more ambiguous to my liking.
Install the AVMA key in the virtual machine. License Mobility Rights do not apply to the server software. Page 82 explains what is granted under License Mobility Rights, which does not apply to Windows Server here as the rights are not granted. Guest OS VM licenses have to be fully assigned to hardware. The licenses do not fail over with the VM. You cannot install any additional roles to the Host and preserve the free Guest OS license.
Only Hyper-V. As confusing as the licensing plan seems for R2 based on the variety of answers, I can hardly wait for to hit the scene, with it's 'core pack' licensing It's no wonder there is confusion when things are so poorly written, as if no one would ever confuse the term 'physical processor' vs. I would like to draw your attention to a thread I created on instruction from spiceworks regarding a quizz question about this same topic I found to be misleadingly worded.
Consult your Microsoft licensing provider with all details to obtain confirmation that the interpretation is correct with respect to the actual licenses you have So many lovely little variations of license types. Make sure you know the details of the host hardware as the licenses are often dependant on the number of CPU sockets with server licensing.
Although I believe there are other combinations. Read through the detail carefully as it's confusing. Many people I have worked with over the years have been causal and quickly misunderstood the terms of the licenses having never actually read the detail.
It's tedious but important. Be mindful of restrictions on the portability of licenses in a virtual environment. Software licensing still mostly seems to be heavily dependant on being associated with physical hardware. If you want the VMs to move, you ideally need to have SA for license mobility. The only condition that MS says is that if a host fails, you can move, but you cannot move it again for 90 days I assume that if the host fails again, it will invalidate the second part.
If both servers are beefy then no issue. However, I think if you license both server for the max VMs that you will or maybe can run, it should be OK - this is a grey area. I know its better to go with Data center license, but we already purchased standard license on last year so my organization want to use this existing licenses.
Is it any surprise that people get confused with MS licensing? If you have ever had to deal with MS licensing "experts" on the phone you will know that if you phone 10 times you will probably get 10 different answers!
To me, the diagram shows 1 host and 9 VMs. That is fine, but not the 2 hosts and 7 VMs mentioned in the post. Kudos to Bryce, who I think is correct here when he says "Two virtual server instances on the same host.
As far as I have researched, this is not legitimate. License Mobility is not VM mobility. Actually 7 VMs will not fit so we make a diagrams for 6 VMs per host 2 hosts. What type of "paper" license you have. Microsoft have since stopped issuing paper license since Windows Are the cost and number of CALs involved? Most of us are sometimes confused as CALs are almost never mentioned. Do you intend to do Windows Clustering you may need to read up on Windows clustering and its requirements? All physical processors need to be licensed.
Each license covers up to two physical processors. If you run all of the permitted instances the instance in the physical OSE can only be used to manage the virtual OSEs. I will always ask people to get written confirmation from their Microsoft sales representatives as whatever we say here is advise and not legally supported I do seek your kind understanding This may not be easy but this have led to much interpretations.
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If however we had 10 users with a total of 20 devices , e. Windows Server Foundation is available to OEMs Original Equipment Manufacturers only and therefore can only be purchased at the time of purchasing a n new hardware server.
Windows Foundation edition supports up to 15 users. In addition, Foundation edition owners cannot upgrade to other editions. The Essential edition of server is available to OEMs with the purchase of new hardware and also at retail stores. The user limit of this server edition is 25 and device limit is This means that a maximum of 25 users amongst 50 computers can access the Windows Server Essentials edition.
For example, you have 20 users rotating randomly amongst 25 computers accessing the Server Essentials edition, without any problem. A common question at this point is what if the organization expands and increases its users and computers? In these cases Microsoft provides an upgrade path allowing organizations to upgrade to the Windows Server Standard or Datacenter edition license and perform an in-place license transition.
Once the transition is complete, the user limitation, and other features are unlocked without requiring migration or reinstallation of the server. Companies upgrading to a higher edition of Windows Server should keep in mind that it will be necessary to purchase the required amount of CALs or DALs according to their users or devices.
Administrators will be happy to know that it is also possible to downgrade the Standard edition of Server to the Essentials edition. For example, it is possible to run Essential edition of Server as virtual machine utilizing one of two available virtual instances in Standard edition as shown in the figure below.
This eliminates the needs to purchase Essential edition of Server Download Now! Create a free Team Why Teams? Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 4 months ago. Modified 6 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 3k times. Here you can see the Edition is set to foundation but I can see 2 CPUs What is now the right limitation of this edition?
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