Virtualization: ESX/Vsphere vs. Xen Server

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browned

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#339438 8-Jun-2010 16:51

http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/e/c/eecf5d44-9a88-43d8-afdb-d2ab82be035c/R2_License_Guide-O... has more on physical and virtual setups. Weather these are strict guidelines of not is another question. We talked at length with or licensing rep, and they talked with MS to confirm things for us.

But if I am understanding you all correctly you are saying - Buy Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter, run it and all virtual OS's as VMs'. Or Buy Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter, run it on a physical box with VMware/XenServer installed and running the VM's.

We brought 2008 R2 Datacenter for the unlimited Windows Licenses we can run in a Virtual Environment, We installed Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter core on the physical box, added Hyper-V, and moved all of our VM's to this box, plus add new ones as we needed. From the guide we understood MS wanted us to buy Datacenter and then run the VM's on the box that has Datacenter installed on it.

So that begs the question what is "one physical operating system environment" or POSE

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#339581 8-Jun-2010 22:11

browned:

Buy Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter

one thing i did learn from the links/docs is that you need to buy 2x windows 2008 R2 datacenter (or more) per server. you are not allowed to run that edition on single proc boxes.

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browned

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#339686 9-Jun-2010 09:03

Yes that is true. But still for $4k each (I think that is cheap) and then all you can eat Windows OSes in a VM after that.

Each time you build a Windows Server VM that will save you $1.2k on the OS license. The server we built was an HP DL385 G6, so 2 procs, 12 cores, only 16GB ram to start with, 6 2.5" SAS drives, and 4 nics + iLO on the box.

We have 15 VM's on there and many of them moved from ESXi and are now covered by Datacenter OS license, so we have saved $15K+ on those and should be passing an MS audit shortly.

Ragnor

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#339892 9-Jun-2010 18:36

MS licensing complexities has been known to cause brain haemorrhages!

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