Brand Representative for Microsoft. From what I have experienced the R2 editions are Physical Processor based licensing vs the new model for number of cores. So all you need to know is how many physical processors per VMware host and get 1 DataCenter edition of R2 for every 2 processors plus the CAL's for the number of users.
Now that said you will most likely be better off in a per core licensing model so if you can get server with downgrade rights I would look to that as an option for comparison in pricing. If so, how do we manage what keys to apply to each host? Keys don't matter beyond the initial activation.
Having the proper licensing in place is what does. Your confusing logical CPUs with cores. All enn processors can only have a max of two physical processors in a system. Same with X56nn processors. If you have HyperThreading enabled and your count show that divide the number of logical processors by two to get cores and then by cores per physical to get the number of physical processors. Don thank you! I knew my math didn't sound right. So then we have a total of 14 8 in the HX and 3 in the HP stack processors we need to account for which means we only need 7 datacenter licenses then.
Back then we did not have Intel Xeon CPUs with more than 16 cores, 8 cores was max and were very costly. Then also you are only limited to run server std or earlier VMs on Server Data Center licenses. Note MS sells windows server 2012 r2 datacenter licensing guide free download core packs windows server 2012 r2 datacenter licensing guide free download 2-core packs but we just count as per core licenses for the mean time.
Each Server DC edition covers 2 processors. That means if you have 4 servers that have only 4 cores each All of our servers are running R2 and it's coming to end of support, the most "cost effective" option was to upgrade to and allocate the budget to upgrade to down the road. I would always consider using the slightly higher-end Intel Xeon CPUs that is close to the 16 cores per hosts eg Dual 8 cores or single 14 cores or single 16 cores if there are any.
Then drop all the older servers as the OS licensing would be "too expensive". HCI are nice to look at but way overpriced To continue this discussion, please ask a new question.
Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. This essentially moves the VMs back and forth between hosts to load balance. So in this scenario, how does the licensing work on each VM. Popular Topics in Windows Server. Spiceworks Help Desk. The help desk software for IT. Track users' IT needs, windows server 2012 r2 datacenter licensing guide free download, and with only the features you need.
Learn More ». Gregory for Microsoft This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Windows Server expert. JuanBattini wrote: so if one datacenter license covers 2 physical processors and we have a total of 28, we need 14 datacenter licenses, is that right? Thai Pepper. Don This person is a verified professional. Don Thai Pepper. JuanBattini wrote: Don thank you! JuanBattini wrote: so basically you can hypothetically use one key to install on all your VMs as long as you have the rest of the licenses documented and know where they are to show windows server 2012 r2 datacenter licensing guide free download proof in case Microsoft comes knocking to do an audit?
JuanBattini wrote: thanks for the info, we chose to go with for the cost issue. I think it is important to plan ahead This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting.
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