That's one of the things I'm trying to figure out.
But if you purchase 2 copies of Standard, each copy would need to have enough cores for your physical server, right? Buying a second Standard doesn't just add to your core count, does it? Nowhere does it show that you are licensing two servers - it just shows that you purchased licensing for 32 cores. If you make a VL purchase of 2 16-core licenses (8 2-Core "packs", 1 16-Core "pack", whatever), two separate line items to I guess show that you are licensing two hardware platforms, Microsoft processes the order and your licensing document shows you purchased 32 cores. Microsoft just cares that all cores are licensed. I haven't really run into this until just recently but I cannot find the answers to these questions for the life of me. I was curious if maybe the VM would limit how many of the host cores it could use. My other question that's related but different in nature is what happens when running on VMWare and the server has over 16 Cores but you only use a Standard license. In their words a Standard server license is nothing more than 8 Core packs and for that reason a Core pack is exactly 1/8 the price and so on. So you can either buy a bunch of core packs or a bunch of server licenses. It sounds like based on the new Core Licensing model, Microsoft doesn't really care how you get the core licenses as long as you have enough.
Third scenario, Same 32 Core server but instead I purchased 16x 2 Core packs, what do I even do here?Īccording to the many Microsoft articles I found on licensing all three of these scenarios seem to be possible, however I can't find where Microsoft even explains just one of them. What do I do with the Core licenses? Where do they go? Is there even a license on a 2 Core pack? Second scenario, I still have a 32 Core server and purchalicense and 8x 2 Core packs. What do I do with the second license? Just throw it in a drawer in case I get audited? Lets say I have a 32 core server and purchased 2x 2016 Standard licenses to cover all the cores.
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