Best of Questions and Answers from the TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 02 of 24): Server Virtualization with Hyper-V Features and Architecture

re: Best of Questions and Answers from the TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 02 of 24): Server Virtualization with Hyper-V Features and Architecture

Peter Forster — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:09:11 GMT

Hi Kevin,

no problem. I know how difficult it is to stay up to date with every information...

Thanks for adding my comments.

Peter Forster, MVP Virtual Machine

Austria

re: Best of Questions and Answers from the TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 02 of 24): Server Virtualization with Hyper-V Features and Architecture

Kevin Remde — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:56:59 GMT

Peter - You are indeed correct. My only excuse for some of those is "faulty intelligence", and in the Exchange 2007 issue, I completely forgot about the 64-bit question, and answered based on other product support.

I'm adding updated, correct information based on your comment. I sincerely appreciate it!

-Kevin

re: Best of Questions and Answers from the TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 02 of 24): Server Virtualization with Hyper-V Features and Architecture

Peter Forster — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:30:34 GMT

Well, from my perspective there are a few informations provided which are not true:

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“What about Licensing for Standard? Do you get any VMs for that?”

Yes.. In the webcast I said FOUR for Enterprise, and I wasn’t sure about Standard. It turns out that you get FOUR for Standard as well! Yay!

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Correct is:

Windows Server 2008 Standard: 1 physical, 1 virtual

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise: 1 physical, 4 virtual

Windows Server 2008 Datacenter: 1 physical, unlimited virtual

Information:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-12HyperVPR.mspx

and:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/E/C/EECF5D44-9A88-43D8-AFDB-D2AB82BE035C/Win%20Server%20Lic%20Book%20customer%20hi-res.pdf

And the interesting thing: That's the same document from where I have the information and there is written:

"With Windows Server 2008 Standard edition, customers get one virtual instance per license"

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“Will Exchange 2007 be supported by Microsoft to run in Hyper-V?”

Exchange 2007 is supported on Microsoft release Virtualization servers. So today Exchange is supported on Virtual Server 2005. Since Hyper-V is beta today it's not. I expect it to be supported once Hyper-V is released.

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Exchange 2007 is not supported on Virtual Server 2005. Exchange is only supported in an x64 environment which Virtual Server 2005 can not provide because it is limited to x86 virtual Machines

Also right now, Exchange 2007 with SP1 is not supported on _any_ virtualization solution, independently from which vendor.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232170(EXCHG.80).aspx

(Section Exchange 2007 and Virtualization)

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And again this is not true for all versions of Windows Server 2008:

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And to your question – yes, licensing of the Server OS is per-processor, and NOT per-core. So a single-proc quad-core system is going to be one OS license, and a dual-proc system will be two OS licenses.

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Per processor licensing is only available for Datacenter and Itanium-Edition of Windows Server. Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise are per Server, regardless of the physical processors.

This is also listed in this document:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/E/C/EECF5D44-9A88-43D8-AFDB-D2AB82BE035C/Win%20Server%20Lic%20Book%20customer%20hi-res.pdf

Best wishes from Austria

Peter Forster, MVP Virtual Machine

re: Best of Questions and Answers from the TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 02 of 24): Server Virtualization with Hyper-V Features and Architecture

Kevin Remde — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:34:27 GMT

:) You're too kind, D. Thanks!

re: Best of Questions and Answers from the TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 02 of 24): Server Virtualization with Hyper-V Features and Architecture

DReller — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:07:20 GMT

I'm going to have to start rating Kevin lower on his evaluations - I'm expecting to be impressed by his presentations every time, and he keeps meeting that criteria. I think he's getting 5's from now on. ;)

Just kidding!!! This was another great webcast that I'm going to recommend to others who are interested in Hyper-V.

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