Licensing Virtual Machines in Windows Server 2019

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Hey there! In this video we get to the bottom of Microsoft's long-winded Virtual Machine licensing legalities in Windows Server 2019. If you keep watching you will learn a convenient formula to calculate exactly how many licenses you need to buy in order to legally run any amount of Virtual Machines in your organization's environment.

[Montrovantis]

I need to lock my doors before I focus on this video, lest I end up a forensics file in a documentary.

[avinashkulkarni]

Can you create one video on Ibm licence products and there matrix

[Grevald]

Can someone answer simple question? Let's say I have properly licensed my server (Hyper-V host) with Windows server 2019 Datacenter. I plan to run couple of Windows server 2019 standard VMs on it. Do I need to buy licenses to activate Or will they activate automatically??

[kerzism]

Hi Sir, thanks for the info. I have a question here, I'm running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter on my physical server, is it legal to run Windows Server 2016 VMs onto that server?

[poncio]

If our host/esxi box is licensed for windows datacenter 2016, can we buy 8 cores of windows server standard 2022 for a VM on that host?

[rohitvaid]

I have one user with 2 CPU 4 CORE physical 2019 STANDARD server activated using MAK, and wants 2 instances of VMs to be activated on hyper-v without increase in activate count, I suggested for core license but I am not very clear how it works or how the VMs would get activates automatically through MAK on physical server

[beansanddreams]

Great Video. So if my VMware host has 2 16-core processors. How many Windows Server 2022 Standard licenses would I need for 4VMs? I calculated 2 16-core packs. Reasoning. Each 16-core standard pack comes with permission for 1 physical server and 2 VMs. Is this correct?

[pranawgorkhalipradhan]

great info, However I believe its not accurate.

For standard edition additional VMs/OSEs can be added in increments of 2 VMs/OSEs by re-licensing the total number of cores in the Server.

for eg.
in a physical server, 16 physical cores in total and 6 VMs you will need 48 core licenses
16 core license for 16 physical cores (2 VMs included),
16 core license for additional 2 VMs,
16 core license for additional 2 VMs

please correct me if im wrong.
cheers,

[thetnaingaung]

Hi, How about license for the Server OS use inside two VM of windows server 2019 standard? Do I need additional license for those two Server OS inside VMs?

[liaqatsultani]

I have purchased 48pack/96 core license for 4 physical server and also have plan for virtualization, so now I want to my first and second physical server should be activated with 16 core, 3rd 28 core and 4th 24 core the rest is for the use of VM
can anyone help me?

[ahirnimesh]

hiii,
i have 16 core windows server 2019 olp license.
So how much VM i can create use that license in VMware esxi.

[arunmishra]

is there any limit of creating linux vms in hyper v with standard license?

[ThePalumbus]

HI! Does the unlimited number of Vm applied for VMware hypervisor when using windows server Data center edition?

[afikzach]

i have 16 core datacenter license can i make 4 VM's with 4 core each on VMware ESXi with one license? it is unclear according to the video

[stephend]

And Microsoft try's to tell you that their solutions are cheaper than Linux 😂😂🤣😂🤣

[imran]

I don't think your licensing calculation for VMs is accurate.