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Windows Server 2003 R2 Reviewer's Guide Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
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| bet | 48/54 | | Sana | 21.03.2017 | | Hajmi | 437.5 Kb. | | #1048 |
With Windows Server 2003 R2, Microsoft has introduced a number of licensing changes to better facilitate virtualization. To begin with, a single license for Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition grants the organization that holds it a license to that physical instance of the operating system as well as licenses for four virtual instances of either Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition. Moreover, Windows Server 2003 R2 licenses only apply to running instances of the operating system; an organization with a library virtual machines with Windows Server 2003 R2 installed on them would not pay for a license of for each installed instance (as with the traditional licensing model), rather, the customer would pay for only those instances of Windows Server 2003 R2 that were running at any given time. Thus not only does this new licensing model provide excellent value with Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, it also nurtures the adoption of virtualization by only making organizations pay for what they use.
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