Correct but I was only thinking of the sever licenses. I am in an EDU environment where CALs are "free" under our agreement with Microsoft so I frequeny forget about this and you caught me in a senior moment.
Jon On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Andy Ognenoff <andyognen...@gmail.com>wrote: > > If you use Hyper-V and purchase the Enterprise license you get one > > Physical machine license and 4 VM licenses, Data Center gets even better > > but with VMware you get no licenses. > > That is not correct. MS doesn't differentiate between an MS hypervisor and > any other when it comes to the virtualization licenses allotted with > Enterprise or Datacenter. > > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-faq.aspx#virt > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Q. Do the virtualization licensing rights of Windows Server 2008 apply > when > used with non-Microsoft software virtualization technologies? > > A. Yes. The use rights apply regardless of the virtualization product being > used. However, any non-Microsoft software virtualization technologies are > not supported by Microsoft. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - Andy O. > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
