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Window Server Standard Hyper-V licensing
Some general info
- 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.
Dave PatrickOk... so even Microsoft Gold partners doesn't know how licensing in 2022 svr works.
Because one told that only 2 VMs max can be running in Hyper-V role (even linux ones), 2nd told that linux VMs doesn't count.
Sounds good then. When in doubt just have your legal team interpret the EULA
- Sounds good what?
That 2 different Microsoft gold partners have different word about counting (or not) Linux VMs?
That's pathetic.
