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milburnr
Posts:12
 | | 10/10/2005 7:29 AM |
| I™m a bit confused as to what she
was trying to say¦ in the quote below, she says four VMs, but she doesn™t say four instances of
Windows¦ and she says that they™ll only charge for virtual images
of Windows actually running. I take that to mean that if I have a box
with 10 virtual machines defined but only 4 running at a time, that I only have
to pay for 4? Unless I start a 5th one before I bring one of
the others down? Does it mean that currently I™d have to pay for
10? Or is it that if I am only running 4 I can run them on top of one
purchased copy of Windows Server 2003 R2 EE?
One thing that seems a bit silly to me is
if I have my new 64 bit server, GOLIATH, and he™s running 10 VMs with
Windows, then he™s running 10 W2K3 kernels, 10 HALs, 10 __________ (fill
in the blank). There was a concept, sort of filled by NTVDM, that you
could run something in there and if it crashed it didn™t take down the
OS. What if you could run an instance of Exchange in one of those?
Or a DC? VMs are now sort of like having CD images on the network were
for a while “ 15 copies of NT4 SP6a, 12 copies of NT4 Option Pack, 25
copies of Adobe Reader, 20 copies of IE5, 15 copies of IE4¦ you see what
I mean. Run 10 VMs and you have maybe 15 GB of duplicate info on disk. I
hear ESX can mitigate that somewhat¦ but MS wrote the Windows code, who
could do it better than them? Or maybe I™m way off base here. ??
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Rich Milburn
MCSE, Microsoft MVP -
Directory Services
Sr Network Analyst, Field
Platform Development
Applebee's International,
Inc.
4551 W. 107th St
Overland Park, KS 66207
913-967-2819
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10:06 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT]
Movement in licensing over Virtual Instances at MS.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122949,00.asp
Virtual Windows License Simplified
Microsoft also will allow customers to
have four virtual machines running on top of Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise
Edition and Windows Server "Longhorn" Datacenter Edition at no extra
cost, Kelly said.
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