Re: Virtualization licensing

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Yes(to kj, no to Chris), the Enterprise and Datacenter versions are the only
versions that benefit.

Though each provides for the installation of Windows 2003 Standard (or just
about any Windows Server OS) as a guest without additional licensing
purchase this only covers the base OS license. Though SBS is Windows 2003
Standard under the hood the 'SBS bits' are not covered by the 'license
extension for virtual environments'. Major SBS components such as Exchange,
ISA, SQL are in no way covered.

and from the quoted page (and I didn't know part of this)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/calculator.mspx
The virtualization use rights vary by edition of Windows Server. Standard
Edition grants the use rights to run a single virtualized instance of
Windows Server Standard Edition. Enterprise Edition grants the use rights to
run four instances of Windows Server that may be a mix of Standard Edition
and Enterprise Edition. Datacenter Edition is licensed per processor and
grants use rights to run an unlimited number of virtualized instances of a
mix of Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and Datacenter Edition.

The bit I wasn't aware of was the single Standard guest under Standard. The
'any previous server OS' is discussed on the Enterprise 'virtualisation'
page but I can't see anything discussing it for Datacenter.

"kj" <kj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wow, what a truly convoluted and confusing web page. Yikes.

Unless something has very recently and very dramatically changed, and I'm
very sure it hasn't, then No.

Only Enterprise and Datacenter licenses provide for "included" VM
instances, and those don't include SBS at all. Please call a MS Licensing
person to confirm and to critically comment on that web page. (yuck)

--
/kj
"Chris Doré" <c_d_o_r_e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I noticed that the Server 2003 Standard, and friends, licensing allows
additional virtual machines to be covered under the same license.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/calculator.mspx

I can't seem to find any information spelling out whether SBS 2003 has
similar licensing, or not.


Does anyone know if I can install 1 physical and 1 virtual SBS 2003
machines, with a single SBS 2003 license?


Thanks, Chris






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