Datacentre edition edu pricing

[plexer]

Is data centre edition available at edu pricing i.e select?

[meastaugh1]

Yes, it is.

[plexer]

Do you know how much?

[meastaugh1]

I think around £200 per socket. I don't know whether MS Education pricing varies between schools, or if they're all the same.

[plexer]

I thought data centre covered unlimited number of servers.

[meastaugh1]

That's right, you licence per socket (ie physical processor).

 

Edit: To clarify, a datacentre socket licence would allow you to run an unlimited number of virtual copies of Windows Server on that server. You'd purchase the number of licences for the number of processors in that server, dual processor server = 2 datacentre licenses.

Edited December 17, 2009 by meastaugh1

[oxide54]

hmmm

 

can u i buy datacenter? then put esx on the box and put unlimited vm's into esx???? one of the vm's being datacenter??

[K.C.Leblanc]

hmmm

 

can u i buy datacenter? then put esx on the box and put unlimited vm's into esx???? one of the vm's being datacenter??

 

As many as you like can be datacentre.

[Ric_]

As many as you like can be datacentre.

 

Or indeed any other version of Windows