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Applying second Windows 2012 Standard Server License
Good morning,
I was needing to apply a secondary W2012 license key to a physical server so that I can add 2 additional virtual server environments to this machine. I'm sure I don't know how to approach this since it hasn't been very obvious thus far. So far I have 2 Windows 2003 Server Virtual servers running great and are in production. The physical server has been licensed for the initial 2 processors. I'm stuck! Let me know what you think. Thanks.
Pete
I was needing to apply a secondary W2012 license key to a physical server so that I can add 2 additional virtual server environments to this machine. I'm sure I don't know how to approach this since it hasn't been very obvious thus far. So far I have 2 Windows 2003 Server Virtual servers running great and are in production. The physical server has been licensed for the initial 2 processors. I'm stuck! Let me know what you think. Thanks.
Pete
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Okay, so I can't assign another license key to the physical server. How do I introduce it to the system so that it will allow me to add an additional VM? The article is confusing since it does say that not more than one key can be assigned. The VMs are W2003 which have their own license keys so I don't see how the additional W2012 keys come into play in that way.
Part of that article says this:
Standard server licenses provide the ability to host two virtual machines (VMs) on those same two physical processors that the license covers. The same license also provides virtualization rights. Using the above example with four Standard edition licenses, the server is licensed for use of eight physical processors, as many cores as the OS supports, and up to eight VMs
Is this basically saying that I would have to virtualize additional OS environments of W2012? My goal was to just run a single W2012 as the physical OSE and run my W2003 servers as VMs.
Pete
Part of that article says this:
Standard server licenses provide the ability to host two virtual machines (VMs) on those same two physical processors that the license covers. The same license also provides virtualization rights. Using the above example with four Standard edition licenses, the server is licensed for use of eight physical processors, as many cores as the OS supports, and up to eight VMs
Is this basically saying that I would have to virtualize additional OS environments of W2012? My goal was to just run a single W2012 as the physical OSE and run my W2003 servers as VMs.
Pete
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Ok but would that apply to W2012 Standard edition as well? I thought datacenter was the only OS that would support an unlimited number of VMs.
Standard 1 physical (managment) + 2 Virtual (using the same license key)
DataCenter 1 physical (managment) + unlimited Virtual (using the same license key)
The other Virtual Machines use their OWN license key.
DataCenter 1 physical (managment) + unlimited Virtual (using the same license key)
The other Virtual Machines use their OWN license key.
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Thank you guys for the clarification. Microsoft made it sound like you can add licenses to an exisitng OSE to get more VMs out of it which ultimately is cheaper than buying a datacenter license. Much appreciated for your time on this.
Pete
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/10/29/windows-server-and-processor-cores-part-2-windows-server-2012.aspx