I’m going to close the VMware upcoming features poll on the right on Feb 1. I must admit, I’m suprised at the results a little. Keep the votes coming before it closes. I’ll post the final results on Feburary 1st along with what I expected the top three to be.
First off, I’m not a MS licensing expert, don’t claim to be one, never did. For those that are: may the force be with you, your Jedi powers are much stronger than mine!
I was talking to a customer today who thought that Windows licensing in a virtualized world only applied when using Hyper-V and that this licensing did not apply when running VMware’s ESX – not true . I’m a documentation freak and this post is for my readers to have the links to find information on this topic – which comes up often.
Let’s start with my myth above. The answer is that Windows licensing when running virtualized applies to any virtualization platform:
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Yes. The use rights apply regardless of the virtualization product being used.
You can find the complete FAQ here .
The basic idea to quantify running Windows Virtualized is that Standard Edition let’s you run 1 VM on a host, Enterprise gives you 4 VM’s on a host and datacenter gives you unlimited VMs on that host. Microsoft has a great online calculator to help you understand which licensing method is most cost effective for the number of CPU’s you have and number of VMs you plan on running on each host. You can find their calculator here .
Lastly, if you have to document everything for management and you want a very detailed paper on their Licensing, or you are battling insomnia at night, have a read at this whitepaper titled: Licensing Microsoft Server Products in Virtual Environments, August 2008
For those in the U.S, just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Have a safe and happy holiday and enjoy black Friday if you are planning on starting you’re holiday shopping. Much to my wife’s dismay, I typically wait until the last minute. At any rate, make the most of the family time together, many of us don’t get much of it these days.
In another of my late night Internet readings (not for what you think), I came across a few press articles revisiting Intel’s Polaris Prototype chip. It was a chip they demonstrated in 2006 that had 80 cores. At that time they spoke about releasing a chip with 80 cores within 5 years .
Fast-forward to this past Tuesday, Michael Dell brought up the 80-core chip again . This time it was suggested we could see that chip as soon as 2010 (btw, I just checked newegg.com and they’re not taking pre-orders yet). A Central Processing Unit with 80-cores. Read the rest of this entry »
VMware won two awards in the Redmondmag.com Reader’s Choice awards. They won for Best Server Virtual Product (VMware Server) and Best Virtual PC Product (VMware Workstation). Redmondmag.com also noted that there were a large amount of write-ins in the Virtual Server category for ESX server. I have to ask, what’s it take to get ESX and Hyper-V nominated in this category?
Read the full list of winners here .
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