all Microsoft OS licensing is per socket.
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"Lisa" <Lisa@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I want to put approximately 30 Windows server loads on a cluster of 3
> hosts. That's about 8 Windows Enterprise licenses. If I can get 3
> Datacenter licenses, that sounds like it could be a win, and I would
> have the right to add more instances for testing. But I'm not certain
> how Datacenter licensing interacts with multicore and multiple processor
> configurations. I know Vmware licensing is per-socket, so a
> dual-processor Xeon host requires the same licensing as a dual quad-core
> i7 host.