Windows Server 2016 Standard

Question

Olá !

Estou com dúvidas quanto a nova forma de licenciamento do Windows Server.

A versão que estou utilizando é a Standard, sei que nela posso virtualizar até duas VM's, se caso eu desejasse virtualizar mais do que duas, qual seria a forma correta de licenciar ?

Agradeço desde já.

Att, Lucas

Answer 1

Basically license it again to cover each pair of additional VMs or purchase a DataCenter license instead. More details below.

• 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.
• 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.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/2/9/7290EA05-DC56-4BED-9400-138C5701F174/WS2016LicensingDatasheet.pdf

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/D/4/3D42BDC2-6725-4B29-B75A-A5B04179958B/WindowsServer2016VirtualTech_VLBrief.pdf

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Answer 2

Hi,

With other Microsoft server products (such as Exchange or SQL) you can assign a license to either a physical host or a VM. But with Windows Server, the license is always assigned to the physical host.

From the licensing datasheet:

“Standard Edition provides rights for up to two OSEs or Hyper-V containers when all physical cores in the server are licensed. For every two additional VMs, all the cores in the server have to be licensed again.”

So if you have 16 or more cores, then you must license all of those cores again in order to get permission to spin up two more VMs. If you need two more VMs in addition to that, then you must license all of those cores again. You just repeat the process until all your VMs are covered.

You need to meet the minimum again. In other words, you need to purchase licensing for an additional 16 cores if you need two more VMs.

Hope above information can help you.

Answer 3

Olá !

Após ter minha dúvida respondida, eu devo fechar está questão ?

Obrigado !