Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Server General Forum. Sign in to vote. We are microsoft gold partner. Please can anyone guide me for licensing guesT virtual servers. And each physical server can have 4 VOSE. How can I active the guest server and what key I need to use?
Is it 2 vm's per core can be licensed? Does that count hyperthreaded cores as one core or two? Does this question make sense? Additional licenses for standard would have to be purchased to have more than 1 VM Guest. You can have as many VM's on a physical machine as the machine will support, as long as the licensing is purchased for the software. This is software. As always though, I would recommend talking to your reseller, or a Microsoft licensing specialist to avoid any trouble.
Pretty much what IT cowboy said, except to clarify that Datacenter is licensed per socket CPU , so for what might be a typical 2 CPU server who cares how many cores you'd buy 2 Datacenter licenses and could cram as many instances of server on the box as you wanted.
Yes, I Should have commented that for R2 was what I was talking about. Server does work with cores first, then vm's second in a not too complicated, more complicated manner. I will put them here anyway so other may see the difference. Now I am unsure as to the licensing if you are using downgrade rights to run R2, but I suspect that in that case they will require the newer licensing scheme.
You can assign multiple Standard licenses to "stack" rights to run multiple VMs. Just bear in mind these licences are still assigned to the physical server and you can't float them around, so you'll need enough to cover the maximum number of VMs your server could be running at any one time.
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