fiza Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 Our Primary School has a Server 2012 R2 standard acting as a HyperV host. I want to get a Datacenter licence and upgrade the Standard edition to Datacenter. This would then allow me to add as many server VMs as I need. At the moment the VMs are 2008 R2 perpetual licences so need replacing soon. Is this possible or would I need to rebuild the Host as Datacenter?
FN-GM Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 As long as you have the licence for Datacenter you can run the host on Standard edition. 1
fiza Posted June 11, 2018 Author Posted June 11, 2018 As long as you have the licence for Datacenter you can run the host on Standard edition. So I don't actually need to change the edition as long as I can show I have the licence?
PotNoodleTech Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 As long as you have the licence for Datacenter you can run the host on Standard edition. Well I never knew that!!!
Katy Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 Doesn't even have to be running on Windows - we have 3 x Windows Server datacentre licences to cover all Windows VMs running on our 3 VMWare hosts. 1
FN-GM Posted June 11, 2018 Posted June 11, 2018 So I don't actually need to change the edition as long as I can show I have the licence? Correct 1
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