Windows virtual server licencing
Product supplies - Asked by cotasa on Thursday, 15 December, 2016 - 09:40
Hi, according to the new windows server licencing you need to order a minimum of 16 cores per server. We have a Windows 2012 Standard licence with 2 virtual machines. We wish to add another virtual machine which will require an additional licence. Does anybody know whether we have to purchase a full server licence (16 cores) for just the virtual machine or just the number of cores that are assigned to it in the virtual machine? Cheers Robert
Reply by Brad Schumacher from Roberts & Morrow Technology on Friday, 13 January, 2017 - 07:58
Hi Robert The number of Core licenses to purchase are directly linked to the number of CPU cores in your host server. At a high level, unless you can buy Windows 2012 R2 server licenses then you will need to purchase the full numbers of server core licenses. Happy to give you a call to discuss. Cheers Brad
Reply by 20thmanfund on Wednesday, 18 January, 2017 - 13:55
Hi Rob, Hope you are doing well and ready for 2017. Here are additional info to what Brad provided. and please feel free to contact me at any time should you need anything further to this. To license individual virtual machines using the Per Core model, you must purchase a core license for each virtual core allocated to the virtual machine, subject to a four core license minimum per virtual machine. For licensing purposes, a virtual core maps to a hardware thread. See this link for more info - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-server-pricing Regards, Louis Hollander