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Without DC you are still licensing capacity and not VMs, So If I had 2 WIndows Server VMs that could run on 3 hosts in event of a failure, I would have to have 3 Standard Server 2012 Licenses, one for each host, even though i only have two vms.
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What is "DC licensing"?
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@brianlittlejohn said:
Without DC you are still licensing capacity and not VMs, So If I had 2 WIndows Server VMs that could run on 3 hosts in event of a failure, I would have to have 3 Standard Server 2012 Licenses, one for each host, even though i only have two vms.
That's the scenario I would be in. 1 host that allows 2 VMs.
And even if you are running the Hyper-V Server with 1 VM, doesn't that need to be licensed somehow?
BTW: do you want me to move this to another topic since we've drifted so far?
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@BRRABill said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
Without DC you are still licensing capacity and not VMs, So If I had 2 WIndows Server VMs that could run on 3 hosts in event of a failure, I would have to have 3 Standard Server 2012 Licenses, one for each host, even though i only have two vms.
That's the scenario I would be in. 1 host that allows 2 VMs.
And even if you are running the Hyper-V Server with 1 VM, doesn't that need to be licensed somehow?
BTW: do you want me to move this to another topic since we've drifted so far?
1 Standard 2012R2 License will give you the ability to run 2 Windows Server VMs on a machine.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Because that with DC licensing you license capacity, not VMs. The idea that you have a "server licensed" doesn't exist.
But I can't just run a Windows Server in VirtualBox. It has to be licensed somehow, right?
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Because that with DC licensing you license capacity, not VMs. The idea that you have a "server licensed" doesn't exist.
But I can't just run a Windows Server in VirtualBox. It has to be licensed somehow, right?
Yes, you have to use a license on the machine holding virtualbox (bad idea never put a server on there except to test)
I think where you may be getting confused is that you don't physically install a license on the machine. You just have to have enough licenses to cover your use scenario to be legal.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Because that with DC licensing you license capacity, not VMs. The idea that you have a "server licensed" doesn't exist.
But I can't just run a Windows Server in VirtualBox. It has to be licensed somehow, right?
Of course. Everything needs to be licensed, all of it. You license the platform you are on for the capacity that you need. Same with VDI.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
Yes, you have to use a license on the machine holding virtualbox (bad idea never put a server on there except to test)
I think where you may be getting confused is that you don't physically install a license on the machine. You just have to have enough licenses to cover your use scenario to be legal.
Yes, that was just a (bad) example.
OK. As you may know from my other thread, I am a little new to the VM thing. I figured they all still needed to be activated and whatnot.
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@BRRABill said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
Without DC you are still licensing capacity and not VMs, So If I had 2 WIndows Server VMs that could run on 3 hosts in event of a failure, I would have to have 3 Standard Server 2012 Licenses, one for each host, even though i only have two vms.
That's the scenario I would be in. 1 host that allows 2 VMs.
And even if you are running the Hyper-V Server with 1 VM, doesn't that need to be licensed somehow?
BTW: do you want me to move this to another topic since we've drifted so far?
HyperV is never a factor. It is always "virtual" or "not virtual." What hypervisor you use cannot ever be a factor.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Of course. Everything needs to be licensed, all of it. You license the platform you are on for the capacity that you need. Same with VDI.
I think my words are confusing activation and licensing.
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@BRRABill said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
Yes, you have to use a license on the machine holding virtualbox (bad idea never put a server on there except to test)
I think where you may be getting confused is that you don't physically install a license on the machine. You just have to have enough licenses to cover your use scenario to be legal.
Yes, that was just a (bad) example.
OK. As you may know from my other thread, I am a little new to the VM thing. I figured they all still needed to be activated and whatnot.
Activated is completely unrelated to licensing. No connection at all.
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You are. If you purchas a VL they give you a MAK key to activate machines.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Of course. Everything needs to be licensed, all of it. You license the platform you are on for the capacity that you need. Same with VDI.
I think my words are confusing activation and licensing.
Yes, that would make things very confusing. You need to activate anytime that the OS sees the hardware change. Doesn't imply anything more than that.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
You are. If you purchas a VL they give you a MAK key to activate machines.
Right.
I'm used to retail activation.
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So back to the scenario.
I have a server with Server 2012R2 Standard on it. 1 license, running 2 VMs. (The max?)
Can I take the backup images of one of those servers and virtual boot it on another device to test it?
Seems like I cannot since my license for Standard only allows me to run 2 VMs and that is what I am running.
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@BRRABill said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
You are. If you purchas a VL they give you a MAK key to activate machines.
Right.
I'm used to retail activation.
That's a pain, but it still isn't tied to licenses.
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I believe you will need a license for your test device as well.
And you can apply multiple Standard Licenses to machines, you get two vms for each license.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
I believe you will need a license for your test device as well.
That's my understanding. Just most people that do that have DC licensing so they just need a little licensing for a lot of testing.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
I believe you will need a license for your test device as well.
And you can apply multiple Standard Licenses to machines, you get two vms for each license.
Hence why I think the 1:1 "test anytime" selling features of these packages, even at the server level, could be out of EULA.
