Windows Server licensing and Virtual Machines
Posted on August 21st, 2008 by admin
Spent sometime today clarifying Microsoft’s stance on licensing Windows Servers as virtual machines, this applies regardless of which virtulisatuion platform the VM’s are running on e.g. VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, Hyper-V.
With standard Windows server licences you have to buy a licence for each VM running Windows Server as the guest OS.
With an enterprise licence you [...]
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