Hello,
Just Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition is licensed per CPU socket.
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"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxx> schrieb im
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> all Microsoft OS licensing is per socket.
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> "Lisa" <Lisa@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C31EF118-1F7A-4867-B174-3483D91CFFC1@xxxxxx Quote:
>>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.
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