Microsoft Licensing Primer
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The ability to add more VMs whenever you want is big. When you get that close it is pretty common that you start being stingy with separating workloads to keep within your licensing. Get a DC license and often you suddenly jump from eight to a dozen VMs
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@scottalanmiller The dollar to dollar break even point is 14VMs or 7 Standard licenses... Like i said next time around I'll purchase the DC because it will give me more flexibility turning up VMs
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What are the prices?
Standard is about $830 and DC is about $5820?
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@scottalanmiller Something like that... I think I got my Standards for $750...
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That makes sense, that would be the 14 number. So if you know you can do 13, standard. But if you hit 14, DC for sure.
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@scottalanmiller I would say if you get to 10vms, it is worth the extra price. For the flexibility of adding a vm whenever needed.
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I would generally agree, but ignoring flexibility and soft benefits, the inflection point appears to currently be between 13 and 14 VMs per host.
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It would actually be 12, if you have 13 you have to buy the licenses for 14
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@brianlittlejohn said:
It would actually be 12, if you have 13 you have to buy the licenses for 14
Duh, of course. Late on a Friday, needing some beer here, I guess.
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@scottalanmiller Thats what I'm about to do, either craft beer or wine. My friends are having a make you own pasta night... so im leaning towards wine unless I see a beer I cant do without.
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I've got a single beer left in the fridge. Doubt that I am going to walk to the store for more, though.
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I have an almost full bottle of sake to tide me over tonight.
First snow is about to arrive in Chicagoland. The kids are excited.
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Went to the store and ended up with wine and beer...
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I should probably do that. I think that we've lost track of this thread now.
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That 12 VMs isn't just 12 on a single host for normal operations - if the plan is to move VMs around for failover, you're down to a max of 6 on each server before buying DC makes sense.
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@Dashrender said:
That 12 VMs isn't just 12 on a single host for normal operations - if the plan is to move VMs around for failover, you're down to a max of 6 on each server before buying DC makes sense.
Correct you are. IF you have DR needs, the numbers change a lot.
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Yeah take that beer talk elsewhere, LOL.
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@Dashrender said:
That 12 VMs isn't just 12 on a single host for normal operations - if the plan is to move VMs around for failover, you're down to a max of 6 on each server before buying DC makes sense.
Yea, we were talking about the most that can run on a machine including all DR/Maintenance issues.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@Dashrender said:
That 12 VMs isn't just 12 on a single host for normal operations - if the plan is to move VMs around for failover, you're down to a max of 6 on each server before buying DC makes sense.
Yea, we were talking about the most that can run on a machine including all DR/Maintenance issues.
In that case, you're limited to 6 VMs per host otherwise you're better off buying DC for each server.
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@Dashrender said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
@Dashrender said:
That 12 VMs isn't just 12 on a single host for normal operations - if the plan is to move VMs around for failover, you're down to a max of 6 on each server before buying DC makes sense.
Yea, we were talking about the most that can run on a machine including all DR/Maintenance issues.
In that case, you're limited to 6 VMs per host otherwise you're better off buying DC for each server.
Only if you want them to float individually. If you only move them at the time of a system failure, the licenses would migrate to the new host with you.