Hyper-V Licensing

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  • A minimum of 8 core licenses is required for each physical processor and a minimum of 16 core licenses is required for each server.
  • Core licenses are sold in packs of two.
  • Standard Edition provides rights for up to 2 Operating System Environments or Windows Servers containers with Hyper-V isolation when all physical cores in the server are licensed. For each additional 1 or 2 VMs, all the physical cores in the server must be licensed again.
    
    http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/2/9/7290EA05-DC56-4BED-9400-138C5701F174/WS2016LicensingDatasheet.pdf

  http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/D/4/3D42BDC2-6725-4B29-B75A-A5B04179958B/WindowsServer2016VirtualTech_VLBrief.pdf

  So in your case to run 3 - 2016 virtual machine guests using Server 2016 Standard you'll need to license the host twice.

   

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  • Edited by Dave PatrickMVP Thursday, July 18, 2019 2:23 PM
  • Proposed as answer by Candy LuoMicrosoft contingent staff Monday, July 22, 2019 3:39 AM

  Thursday, July 18, 2019 2:05 PM

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  Thank you.

  Whats are the feature differences on Hyper-V with Windows 2016 STD vs ENT ?

  Friday, July 19, 2019 9:33 AM

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  You're welcome, you can compare editions features here.

  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started-19/editions-comparison-19

   

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  Friday, July 19, 2019 11:57 AM

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  Hi ,

  You could mark the useful reply as answer if you want to end this thread up.

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  Monday, July 22, 2019 3:39 AM

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