Virtualization RightsĮverything in this section applies to Windows Server licensing on all virtualization platforms on the planet outside of the SPLA (hosting) licensing program. Very nice for multi-tenant or Network Virtualization-enabled clouds. When that template is deployed on to the WS2012 R2 Datacenter hosts, then the guest OS will automatically activate without using KMS or online activation. With this you get an AVMA key, that you install into your template VMs (guest OS must be WS2012 R2 DC/Std/Essentials) using SLMGR. If you use the Datacenter edition of WS2012 R2 (via any licensing program) for the management OS of your hosts Hyper-V then you get a feature called Automated Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA). With one exception, which is really due to the exceptional virtualization licensing rights granted with the Datacenter edition. Technically the Datacenter and Standard editions of WS2012 R2 are identical.
The One Technical Feature That Is Unique To Datacenter Edition If you have Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard edition, you will have the right to downgrade the software to use any prior version of Enterprise, Standard or Essentials editions. If you have Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition you will have the right to downgrade software bits to any prior version or lower edition. This applies no matter what downgraded version you plan to install. A server with 4 * 16 core AMD processors has 4 processors. A server with 2 Intel Xeon E5 processors with 10 cores each has 2 processors. Processorsīoth the Standard and Datacenter edition cover a licensed server for 2 processors. As with WS2012, the two editions are identical technically, having the same scalability and features … except one.
There aren’t any huge changes to the “core” editions of Windows Server (Datacenter and Standard).
In this post, I’m going to cover the licensing for “core” editions of Windows Server. Remember that once released, you will be buying WS2012 R2, even if you plan to downgrade to W2008 R2. Microsoft released the updating licensing details for WS2012 R2 several weeks ago. That’s the job of your reseller or distributor, so ask them. As usual, I am not answering any questions about licensing.
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