Colin Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 I know a couple of you in here might be interested in this. Longhorn Datacenter will have no extra virtualization costs. Today virtualization is expensive for licensing. Microsoft asks people to license every OS installed on virtual machines, even if powered off. But something is changing. Since the release of Windows Server 2003 R2 Microsoft started approaching a per-use licensing model instead of a per-installation model. So that now Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition owners can run up to 4 virtual machines with same OS at no additional costs. This trend is going be stronger in the near future: the next Microsoft operating system for servers, codename Longhorn, actually in beta, will permit to use infinite virtual machines with same OS onboard at no additional costs, buying the Datacenter edition. So if you have a performing hardware able to run 100 VMs, you'll still have to pay just 1 Longhorn Datacenter Server license. From Data Centre News London Dockland. I bet the Data rich kids will not bring the prices down though. Colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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