Windows Server Licensing Vmware Cluster

Some tools such as sql server management studio do not incur any licensing cost.

Windows server licensing vmware cluster. To give you a more consistent licensing experience across multi cloud environments we transitioned from processor based licensing to core based licensing for windows server 2019 datacenter. Unfortunately it s really ugly. Host specification since the windows server 2019 datacenter and standard editions are licensed by physical core this tool requires information about the number of servers hosts the number of cpus per server and the number of cores per cpu. The license use for vsan for desktop equals the total number of powered on vms in a cluster with enabled vsan.

Close pricing and licensing overview. Total of required oses the total number of operating system environments oses to be run on the server s. You can purchase windows server 2016 standard to license all the virtual oses in your virtual cluster if you want. Licensing sql server per vm is straightforward.

The number of powered on desktop vms in a vsan cluster must be less than or equal to the license capacity of vsan for desktop. The answer is yes and no. Therefor i compiled a top 7. Licensing of windows server products with virtualization technologies and specifically with vmware vsphere clusters is a challenge.

Every vm that has sql server or any of its server components such as analysis services and reporting services must be licensed. To remain eula compliant the license use for vsan for desktop must not exceed the license capacity. Let s say i wanted to license 10 x windows server 2016 standard virtual servers on 3 x vmware esxi hosts. Even when using microsoft windows datacenter licenses you still need cals.