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One of our customers has 2 copies of MS SERVER 2019 DataCenter, as we have a PRIMARY Hypervisor with 2 CPU's.. This is running their "LIVE" VM's
Next to this server in the rack, they have another "old" server, and we want to use this as the REPLICA server.., so nothing running on it, just sitting there in the event of a DR... Hyperv will replicate the VM's over to it, but they will not be live..
Do we need to buy more SERVER 2019 DataCenter licences..?, I can't see we would as this is not live and no VM's are spun up on it...
I would be grateful for anyone's advice..?
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Sounds like you may be Ok with two licenses. Each host needs to be licensed for all cores.
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So, the PRIMARY HV has 2 CPU, and we therefore have 2 copies of SERVER 2019 DataCenter to cover each CPU.., so the PRIMARY is legal.
It was really if we need to buy further licences for the secondary machine which is just running as a REPLICA will all the VM's off..?
PRIMARY HV has 2 CPU, and we therefore have 2 copies
Licensing is by physical core count, not by CPU
secondary machine which is just running as a REPLICA
If it's installed, then the host machine will need to be licensed and activated.
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Just checking if there's any progress or updates?
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Hi there, thanks for taking the time to assist...
The server is fitted with 2 Intel Xeon Gold 622R CPU's which are 16 core each one...
As I understood it, we needed two DataCenter licences to make that legal..?, if that is right..., are we okay also using it on that spare server which is just acting as the REPLICA server..?
Regards Colin
Server 2019 licenses are sold by core count. From what you described you'll need a 32 core license for this host.
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Just checking if there's any progress or updates?
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and what is the legal, licencing requirement for the REPLICA server..?
Nothing changes, license it for all cores.
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Just checking if there's any progress or updates?
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