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Hi, I found out recently that i have been handling the licenses of windows server vm's wrong.  So im trying to get a better understanding of things

 

I think i have a better handle of things with the exception of how downgrading 2012 server to 2008 effects things.

 

To give an example, i have a project coming up for a client, its a small new vmware project

 

The plan is to have 2 physical server running vmware eseentials plus.

 

They will need 4 Windows 2012 server Vm's and 2 Windows 2008 32 bit Vm's

 

I want to be able to vmotion the servers if needed from one to the other, so i will need windows licenses on both servers.

 

So i figure i will need 3 Windows 2012 Standard Licenses per physical server so 6 total

 

One Windows 2012 Standard license gives you the ability to have 2 vm's.  When i downgrade one of the licenses to 2008 server, im assuming im allowed to have 2 2008 Vm's for that one license, is that correct?

 

Or does it go back to the old 2008 licensing where you where only allowed 1 2008 vm per standard license?

 

Thanks

Mike


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