Re: Running Virtual server on 2003 std vs Enterprise

Jeff Viola wrote:
Thanks for the clarification. Does someone know if the 4 instances
of virtual server on the Enterprise Host have to be 4 instances of
Enterprise?? In other words, if I get 32 bit Enterprise, then each of
the 4 instances would have to be 32bit Enterprise or could they be
standard? I'm thinking with the explanation that KJ gave I wouldn't
be able to use 64bit Enterprise because only 32bit instance will work
with Virtual Server 2005. Can someone clarify this for me?

Thanks,


A free call to Microsoft Licensing would be your most authoritative answer.
I've heard both versions some with "software assurance" tossed in (for
downgrade rights) and some without. With SA you should be covered, without
it I'd give MS a call.



"kj [SBS MVP]" wrote:

Jeff Viola wrote:
If I use Windows 2003 Enterprise 64bit is there any advantage with
running virtual? We there be any virtual hardware issue, Will I
still get 4 free instances, and would all 4 of my virtuals be
windows 2003 enterprise 64bit. Are there any problems with 64bit
virtual. Installing software? I'm not familiar with 64bit.
Please give me any insights that you may have.

Thanks,

Virtual Server 2005 R2 only supports 32bit guest VM's irregardless
of the Host OS version (Std, Ent, 32bit, 64bit).

Enterprise (both 32b & 64b) does give you the licensing advantage.
Standard 64 bit gives you support for the extra memory.

VMWare does provide for 64Bit Virtual Machines.

64 Bit Host OS is prefereable to a 32 bit host for many reasons.

64 bit Guests (VM's) depend upon what you are using them for. For
example if you were going to have a Virtual Machine Exchange 2007
server you would NEED to have a 64 bit VM as Exchange 2007 is
supported for production in ONLY 64 bit versions.

Of course your server hardware needs to support 64bit too. <g>




"Danny Sanders" wrote:

So if I understand this correctly. If I purchase 1 copy of
windows 2003 Enterprise, I can run 4 instance (virtual) of
Enterprise on that same server?

From what I understand, Yes.

Can I instead run 4 instance of windows 2003 std?

From what I understand, Yes.

I'm just wondering if I
use enterprise vs standard will it bog down my server?


You need to make sure the server you are going to put the virtual
servers on, has enough resources to do the job you are asking it to
do. If you need 4 GB RAM for each virtual server to work correctly,
make sure the host server has at least 16 GB of RAM.

hth
DDS



"Jeff Viola" <JeffViola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So if I understand this correctly. If I purchase 1 copy of
windows 2003 Enterprise, I can run 4 instance (virtual) of
Enterprise on that same server?
Is that correct? Can I instead run 4 instance of windows 2003
std? Does Enterprise take more resources to run than standard?
I'm just wondering if I
use enterprise vs standard will it bog down my server?

Thanks,


"Danny Sanders" wrote:

I was going to put standard on it, but just read that I
will need to use enterprise. Is that correct? Are there any
benefits to running the virtual on enterprise?

From what I understand if you are running Enterprise on the Host
computer it
allows you to run up to 4 instances of the server software in
the Virtual
environment.

See:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/highlights/virtualization.mspx

hth
DDS


"kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ.SBS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jeff Viola wrote:
I'm going to run 4 virtual OS (2 windows 2003 std and 2 Redhat)
on a windows 2003 server. The server will have 12 gigs of RAM
2 Quad-core processors. I was going to put standard on it, but
just read that I will need to use enterprise. Is that correct?
Are there any benefits to running the virtual on enterprise?

Thoughts?


Well if you can run the 64 bit edition of standard you can
support up to
64GB of memory, otherwise 32bit standard only does 4GB.

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/kj

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/kj

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/kj


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