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Originally Posted by reactive-uk
Does each virtual server on a Windows virtual server box need its own copy of Windows server, presumably data centre edition on rental at £25 a month, or is there a 'fiddle' (legal or otherwise?) to use just one copy 'spread' over as many VPS as you have on the box?
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I had this very discussion with M$ at the launch of their new voip/comms version of Windows server, and the answer was you need *lots* of windows licences.
Principally
One for the server
One for each VPS
but there are some "interesting" additional licences needed if you're on multi-core/multi-cpu servers, to do with how many cores available to the VPS
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The Hyper-V support is for virtualisation technologies, and is already a confusing area for licencing - to run a few windows VM’s on a Dual-Quadcore server currently needs about £450/month of Win2K3 licences - one per cpu, one per VM per core - so to run 3 VM’s each able to access all 8 cores requires a total of 26 licences @ £15/month each !!!
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see
http://www.hostblog.co.uk/2007/60
