Hi @a3pl ,
Please note that these are technical forums, and is not meant for providing legal advice on licensing. licensing questions are best asked directly to a trained Microsoft licensing specialist.
You can contact Microsoft directly and discuss your licensing needs - www.microsoft.com/licensing
Some general information:
- Each host needs to be licensed.
- A minimum of 8 core licenses is required for each physical processor and a minimum of 16 core licenses is required for each server.
- Core licenses are sold in packs of two (2).
- Standard Edition provides rights for up to 2 Operating System Environments or Windows Servers containers with Hyper-V isolation when all physical cores in the server are licensed. For each additional 1 or 2 VMs, all the physical cores in the server must be licensed again.
- Datacenter Edition provides rights for unlimited Operating System Environments or Windows Servers containers with Hyper-V isolation when all physical cores in the server are licensed.
You'll also find some licensing information here:
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/pricing
- Licensing Microsoft server products for use in virtual environments
- Windows Server 2019 Licensing Datasheet
- Windows Server 2016 Licensing Datasheet
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing Datasheet
- Microsoft SQL Server 2019
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