02-02-2012, 12:50 PM
Virtual Server 2005 R2
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Microsoft strategy Vision of virtualization
IT organization benefit when workloads are decoupled from hardware
Increased availability, manageability
Long term, workloads will be increasingly dynamic
Virtualization is a key enabling technology to achieve this
Licensing Windows server licenses
Licensing changes for server products
Virtualization friendly (after 1-Dec-2005)
Only count licenses for running VMs
For per-processor licenses, only count virtual CPUs in VM
Single Win2003 R2 EE license:
1 host + 4x Win2003 R2 EE in guest
Virtualization unlimited (after 1-Oct-2006)
Single Win2003 R2 Datacenter license:
1 host + unlimited Win2003 R2 (any) guests
Specifications
Host
CPU
VS2005 Standard Edition: max 4 CPUs (1 or 2 cores)
VS2005 Enterprise Edition: max 32 CPUs (1 or 2 cores)
Memory: max 64 GB
Guest
CPU: max 1
Memory: max 3.6 GB
Network adapters: max 4 - unlimited bandwidth !
USB: no
[attachment=17058]
Microsoft strategy Vision of virtualization
IT organization benefit when workloads are decoupled from hardware
Increased availability, manageability
Long term, workloads will be increasingly dynamic
Virtualization is a key enabling technology to achieve this
Licensing Windows server licenses
Licensing changes for server products
Virtualization friendly (after 1-Dec-2005)
Only count licenses for running VMs
For per-processor licenses, only count virtual CPUs in VM
Single Win2003 R2 EE license:
1 host + 4x Win2003 R2 EE in guest
Virtualization unlimited (after 1-Oct-2006)
Single Win2003 R2 Datacenter license:
1 host + unlimited Win2003 R2 (any) guests
Specifications
Host
CPU
VS2005 Standard Edition: max 4 CPUs (1 or 2 cores)
VS2005 Enterprise Edition: max 32 CPUs (1 or 2 cores)
Memory: max 64 GB
Guest
CPU: max 1
Memory: max 3.6 GB
Network adapters: max 4 - unlimited bandwidth !
USB: no