#WINDOWS 10 VM LICENSE WINDOWS#
Standard provides rights to use up to two Operating System Environments (OSEs) or Hyper-V containers and unlimited Windows Server containers on the licensed server.Datacenter provides rights to use unlimited Operating System Environments (OSEs) or Hyper-V containers and Windows Server containers on the licensed server.When all physical cores on a server are licensed, with a minimum of 8 cores per physical processor and a minimum of 16 core licenses per server.Standard has minimum limits and shielded VMs cannot be used. That table gives you a thumbnail of how the new licensing model affects VM’s and their licensing. Windows Server containers without Hyper-V isolation OSEs / Windows Server containers with Hyper-V isolation In the instance of additional OSE’s or Hyper-V containers, Microsoft allows for multiple licenses to be assigned to the same cores.Īnd here’s a summary of features for the affected levels of VM support: Feature Licensing rights for Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition only provides for all physical cores in the server to be licensed and includes only 2 OSE’s or Hyper-V containers. Again, the cores must be licensed but the number of VM’s will vary based on the edition and cores to be licensed. With this newer licensing model, Microsoft has also changed somewhat with regard to licensing VM’s. Below is a quick list of categories and further information regarding availability between these two main editions. Earlier versions of Windows Server operating systems basically included the same available features with the exclusion of VM licensing. This is a big shift from the previous editions of Windows Server and applies to both Standard and Datacenter versions.Īdditionally, with the arrival of Windows Server 2016 previous feature parity is no longer available. With regard to licensing, the change with Windows Server 2016, as with a number of other products, Microsoft has shifted from licensing based on the number of processors to the number of cores for a more accurate accounting. However, with Windows Server 2016, while there is no difference with these previous versions in regard to editions, licensing changed. As recently as the releases of Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2014 and Windows Server 2014 R2, the Standard and Enterprise editions have been licensed much the same way by Microsoft by counting CPU’s.
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