We've been told that Standard only gives you one VM license, not two. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-R2.aspx Does your specialist have a more current reference for their claim?
As for use, we are thinking about licensing Datacenter this year instead of Enterprise (Schools agreement customers) for our new (since last year) Hyper-V Cluster Host servers. As we migrate more of our physical boxes to virtual, we've started to reach a tipping point where it makes more sense to license this way. Our MS consultant also pointed out that in a cluster, if you license by vms per server, you can technically be out of compliance during failover scenarios unless you own additional licenses. -Bonnie From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS Server licensing and vm servers Hi All, I had a review yesterday with a MS licensing specialist which I found very helpful. One thing I learned that I didn't know was that for each Windows 2008 Standard license I purchase, I have two additional Windows 2008 Standard licenses as VM servers, as long as those VM servers reside on the same hardware that the original 2008 is installed onto. And that's four additional licenses for Enterprise Servers. So, how are you all using this? I use XenServer and have a number of virtual servers on a SAN, but can't use the "vm" licensing model here. I suppose it might help in a small office where I need more than one server (DC, Exchange, file and print) but just one box would be fine? Just asking for options/suggestions. Regards, Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board 757-788-0528 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
