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  • 1.  FT WIndows licensing

    Posted Apr 09, 2013 08:15 PM

    Hi all,

    Just a quick question: how many WIndows licenses do I need when protecting a Windows server with FT? I have seen different opinions on this floating around the net...

    Kind regards,

    Raymond



  • 2.  RE: FT WIndows licensing

    Posted Apr 09, 2013 08:30 PM

    This is really a question for Microsoft to answer but I would say one because you are only accessing a single instance at a time -



  • 3.  RE: FT WIndows licensing

    Posted Apr 10, 2013 12:44 AM

    We went through this a while back.

    Whether people like to admit it based on what is convenient or not, even HA is not covered by Windows VLK licensing. A license is assigned to one physical machine. The abillity to "fail over", or vmotion around for maintenance is provided as a feature of Software Assurance.

    The loophole of course is to buy Datacenter edition for each host. Then you can pretty much do what you want.