Guest Net Admin Posted November 15, 2007 Posted November 15, 2007 I have a question about licensing and virtual machines. If I have a quad core server and install Server 2003 Standard, how many licenses would I need? If I install a 2 VMs on that server, would I need an additional license for them as well? What about Datacenter edition, is that unlimited as far as servers I can install it on? Thank you
Guest Daniel Peterson Posted November 15, 2007 Posted November 15, 2007 Re: Licensing and Virtual Machines This page explains it further: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/highlights/virtualization/faq.mspx Basically, Server 2003 standard doesn't include a license for any VMs. Server 2003 Enterprise will license the host server, plus up to 4 VMs running on that host server. Server 2003 DataCenter includes licenses for unlimited VMs on that host server, but is priced per processor instead of per server. If you only have the single quad core processor, that would count as 1 processor for DataCenter licensing purposes. "Net Admin" <NetAdmin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D6EA35A3-00D9-4976-AAD7-808AC53457B7@microsoft.com... > I have a question about licensing and virtual machines. > If I have a quad core server and install Server 2003 Standard, how many > licenses would I need? > If I install a 2 VMs on that server, would I need an additional license > for > them as well? > What about Datacenter edition, is that unlimited as far as servers I can > install it on? > Thank you
Guest Net Admin Posted November 15, 2007 Posted November 15, 2007 Re: Licensing and Virtual Machines Thank you Daniel. That helps. "Daniel Peterson" wrote: > This page explains it further: > > http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/highlights/virtualization/faq.mspx > > Basically, Server 2003 standard doesn't include a license for any VMs. > Server 2003 Enterprise will license the host server, plus up to 4 VMs > running on that host server. > > Server 2003 DataCenter includes licenses for unlimited VMs on that host > server, but is priced per processor instead of per server. If you only have > the single quad core processor, that would count as 1 processor for > DataCenter licensing purposes. > > "Net Admin" <NetAdmin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:D6EA35A3-00D9-4976-AAD7-808AC53457B7@microsoft.com... > > I have a question about licensing and virtual machines. > > If I have a quad core server and install Server 2003 Standard, how many > > licenses would I need? > > If I install a 2 VMs on that server, would I need an additional license > > for > > them as well? > > What about Datacenter edition, is that unlimited as far as servers I can > > install it on? > > Thank you >
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