Windows Server 2016 Licensing Vmware

From windows server 2016 onwards licensing for all editions standard and datacenter will now be based on physical cores per cpu.

Windows server 2016 licensing vmware.

This tool takes into account the following. This can cover either 2 processors with 8. With windows server 2016 microsoft has moved to a per core licensing model instead of socket based licensing. Here are the 2 key licensing changes.

Let s say i wanted to license 10 x windows server 2016 standard virtual servers on 3 x vmware esxi hosts. This includes the following details. Unfortunately it s really ugly. Host specification since the windows server 2016 licensing model is core based this tool requires information about the number of servers hosts the number of cpus per server and the number of cores per cpu.

I have purchased windows server 2016 volume licensing and i have the keys. Windows server 2016 licensing. Total of required oses the total number of operating system environments oses to be run on the server s. Servers are licensed based on the number of processor cores in the physical server.

All physical cores in the server must be licensed. In addition to the base windows server cal or external connector license some functionalities will continue to require the purchase of an. Hi all please provide guidance for the below scenario in terms of microsoft server 2016 licensing. Windows server 2016 licensing with vmware hypervisor.

Which makes it 20 cores in total i have installed and licensed esxi 6 standard and i have created four virtual machines running windows server 2016. Gulfit asked on 2016 11 22. The windows server 2016 licensing cost increase is forcing it administrators to search for ways to manage the burden. I have a server with two processors and 10 cores each.

You can purchase windows server 2016 standard to license all the virtual oses in your virtual cluster if you want. Vmware s distributed resource scheduler offers methods to manage groups with different licenses and assist in the licensing transition with vmware drs rules. My question is how do i license these virtual machines. A minimum of 16 core license sold in packs of 2 so a minimum of 8 licenses to cover 16 cores is required per each physical server.