Server 2019 Licensing

[Guest Guest]

I've just had a quote for Windows Server 2019 however I'm a little confused as to what we need. We will have

 

2x physical hosts running HyperV Server 2019 (The free edition) - each host with 2x 8 core Xeon CPUs

8x VMs running Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition

 

I've been told that we need 64 cores, does this sound right? We've been quoted £992.00

 

We have EES for everything else

 

Who is everyone is for licensing?

 

Any help is greatly appreciated

[BKGarry]

How much is two datacenter edition licenses? As they will give you unlimited server VMs

[Cache]

We licence datacenter currently for our hosts.

 

It's probably right, you need a minimum of 16 core licences per server and if you are running and standard grants you rights for 2 vm's, so 2 x 16 cores grants you 4 VM's (2 on each server) and then you need to licence your other 4 VM's which is what takes you up to 64.

[mavhc]

If you're running a Windows VM it has to be licenced as if it were on the physical host. 16 cores is the min. But 1 licence does 2 VMs (on the same host).

 

The issue is you can't just move the VMs between the hosts according to the rules, so they can upsell you to the datacenter version. You can only move a licence every 90 days.

 

The prices I've seen for academic server 2019 is £250 for 16x, or £1500 for Datacenter, so need >11 VMs for it to be cheaper (assuming no expansion).

 

If you're running 8, but want the ability to move them all to 1 server while you work on the other, Datacenter might be better. Set up live migration of each half to the other server, via a dedicated ethernet cable, assuming your storage has enough iops spare.

[johnlevis]

You have to licence the cores on the physical server.

 

Each licence covers a minimum 16 cores which is ok with 2 x 8 core processors.

 

Each licence also covers up to 2 x vm's so if you have 8 vm's you would 'stack' 4 x Standard licences on each server.

 

If server 2 is a replica of server 1, this is ok. If not, you need to licence each server for the maximum number of vm's they might have ie if a server crashes and you move those 8 vm's to the other one, you need to cover 16 vm's in which case you would go with a Datacenter licence.

 

If you have an OVS agreement you can add server licencing to it and pricing would depend on the agreement - give me a shout if you want to go over any of this.

 

John Levis | Software and Solutions Specialist

Tel: 0114 321 8609

[email protected]

very-pc.co.uk

[PotNoodleTech]

We used 2 x Datacentre licences which covered our cores and gives us unlimited VMs.