No, the license is per processor on a physical host. We use VMware, but license each host for the instances. No Hyper-V here (just yet).
On 11 February 2014 13:47, Ricardo Makino <ricardo.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok it's a good idea, but I don't need to run Windows Server as host (a.k.a > hypervisor), right? > > Regards, > > -- > Ricardo Makino > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Sean Hamilton <s...@seanhamilton.co.uk > >wrote: > > > From memory, licensing your compute hosts as "Microsoft Datacenter > Edition" > > then you can run unlimited Windows instances on that host. > > If you're worried about having to license every host in your cloud, you > > could look at host tags and see if you can ensure instances built with > > Windows Templates are on a certain subset of hosts. > > > > Hope this helps. > > Sean > > > > > > On 11 February 2014 12:30, Ricardo Makino <ricardo.n...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > I have a doubt about what kind of software licensing you use to provide > > > Microsoft instances in a IaaS environment, such like windows server > > > instances. > > > > > > Regards, > > > -- > > > Ricardo Makino > > > > > >
