Windows/vmware server licensing
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I'm looking to upgrade a pair of end-of-life home lab Windows servers and wanted to double check on the current licensing since I haven't relicensed since Technet closed up. From what I can tell, it looks like data center covers up to five windows servers? There also appear to be maybe a minimum number of cores per server? Is that accurate?
Also, on VMWare ESXi, since they're broadcom now, do they still offer a free ESXi? Maybe I should migrate to a new baremetal hypervisor?
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@Grey said in Windows server licensing:
I'm looking to upgrade a pair of end-of-life home lab Windows servers and want it to double check on the current licensing since I haven't relicensed since Technet closed up. From what I can tell it looks like data center covers up to five windows servers? There also appear to be maybe a minimum number of cores per server? Is that accurate?
Unless the license has drastically changed in the past 2 years since I've had to deal with Windows Server licensing.
- Data center covers unlimited amounts of Windows Servers for a single host.
- Minimum of 16 cpu core licenses per host.
If you want multiple systems in a cluster that you can freely move VMs between, you'll need a separate data center license for each host.
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@travisdh1 Does that imply that each guest needs a minimum number of cores assigned?
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@Grey said in Windows/vmware server licensing:
@travisdh1 Does that imply that each guest needs a minimum number of cores assigned?
No, you just need to cover the cores on the host.
