Hello All I was hoping someone might clear up a bit of confusion around Microsoft Licencing. I am aware that OEM licences live and die with hardware. I was wondering what the official word is on how to apply a licence to these servers after they are migrated to a virtual environment through a physical to virtual migration. Take the following example.

Customer has 25 physical servers all running Server 2003 standard OEM edition. They have purchased a virtual infrastructure consisting of two virtual hosts configured in a cluster using a SAN for shared storage.

Sources of New Virtual Machines P2V: Converting Physical Computers to Virtual. Physical Computers to Virtual Machines. New-P2V in the Windows. I used disk2vhd utility to convert an XP machine to a.vhd. I mounted it for a new virtual machine. It boots fine, but when I does, it prompts me to activate the copy.

These servers will be moving back and forth between the servers during maintenance windows or when one of the physical hosts fail. My understanding of the licensing requirements for this scenario is this. When the OEM servers become virtual machines they are essentially unlicenced. In order to bring them into compliance we need to assign a sufficient amount of licences to each physical host to cover the maximum amount of these virtual machines that could be running on that physical hardware. In this case we would need licencing for 25 virtual instances per physical host. Nik Hdr Efex Pro Torrent. Assuming I am right so far, this can be achieved three ways 1) Assign Datacenter licences to each host. A minimum of two datacenter licences must be purchased per physical host and datacenter cannot be installed on a single processor server.

So, assuming both hosts have exactly two physical processors we purchase 4 copies of datacenter. This will allow an unlimited number of virtual instances on both physical hosts bringing all the newly migrated VMs into compliance regardless where they end up being run 2) Assign Enterprise licenses to each host. Each Enterprise licence will allow up to 4 virtual instances so we need to purchase and assign 14 copies of Enterprise (7 copies to each host) bringing all the newly migrated VMs into compliance regardless where they end up being run 3) Assign Standard licenses to each host. Each Standard licence will allow only 1 virtual instance so we need to purchase and assign 50 copies of Standard (25 copies to each host) bringing all the newly migrated VMs into compliance regardless where they end up being run You can do the maths and figure out which licence (standard/enterprise/datacenter) works out the cheapest depending on the number of VMs you are trying to licence but either will do. That's my understanding having gone over in detail as many official Microsoft publications as I can find including the following blog Can anyone confirm or correct what I have said above so we can finally put this one to bed. Soundcloud 320 Kbps.