Comments on: Be Smart & Save huge on Microsoft Licensing with Virtualization

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Thu, 19 May 2011 17:46:54 +0000

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By: Thos

Thos — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:57:24 +0000

Hi Eiad,

Great post, thanks for the clarification!

By: Eiad

Eiad — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:25:44 +0000

Hi Ash,

Welcome on board & hope to see you more often on here.

Regards,
Eiad

By: ash

ash — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:34:33 +0000

By: admin

admin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:25:56 +0000

Hi Mitchell,

Windows 2008 Enterprise provide you with the license for 1 physical & 4 virtual instances of the OS. So if you use the 1 physical or you don’t you still can utilize the 4 four virtual instances which is the case with VMware. So if you buy one Win2008 Enterprise you can utilize it for 4 Windows 2008 std/ent as long they run on the same ESX host.

I hope this help,
Eiad

By: Mitchell Sharp

Mitchell Sharp — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:15:45 +0000

What am I missing. In the 2009 licensing document:

Windows Server Licensing on top of VMware’s ESX
If a server is running ESX as the virtualization technology, then Windows Server is not deployed as a host operating system in the physical OSE. However, a license is required for every instance running in a virtual OSE.

I would read this to say that in a VMWare environment you have to have 1 license for each Windows server installed. I am reading this wrong.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:19:06 +0000

Hi Itsme,

Thanks for bringing my attention to it, although I did not mean to offend any one by using it.

I have just fixed the post to avoid offending more readers .

Regards,
Eiad

By: Itsme

Itsme — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:23:37 +0000

The use of the word Retard is about as insensitive as using the N word.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:49:55 +0000

It basically means you have to license for each physical CPU your VM will use. I will give two examples to help you out.

If you have Three VMs running SQL & they are only accessing one of your physical CPUs then you need to pay a license for only this CPU.

If you have three VMs running SQL & they are using three different physical CPUs then you will have to pay for all the three physical CPUs.

You might want to go for instances license, as its easier to handle.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:42:35 +0000

So If i have a cluster of 3 ESX hosts (6 total procs, 2 per host). I want to run 3 copies of SQL 2005 on 3 different VMs — with 2 virtual procs per vm. I want HA/DRS/vmotion.

If i wanted to go with proc licensing, does that mean I need 2 proc licensing per VM or 2 proc licensing per vm per ESX host?