How to license Windows Server in VMware #microsoft #microsoftlicensing
Windows Server is licensed precisely the same regardless of what sort of virtualization you use. However, there is an additional note for using Windows Server for virtualization with Hyper-v technology. In that case, if you run anything other than the visualization or management software on the host in the physical layer, you must also license the physical layer. Otherwise, licensing rules are the same.
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So if our farm has 4 physical hosts running both Windows Server Standard and SQL server (on separate hosts) alongside vCenter 7 we would still need to license all the cores with MS server in order to create (additional) virtual machine instances using our VMware licensing? On host 1 we have 11 workloads, hosts 2 and 3 have 7 and host 4 has 3…though we might be able to move that down to 2…in which case I was wondering if we could get by with just one 16 core pack (rather than 16 plus +12 or 28 total)?