Isee and field this particular question quite frequently. A misunderstanding of licensing terminology and a lot of tribal knowledge has created an image of an artificial limitation with standard edition. The two editions have licensing differences. Their Hyper-V related functional differences:
The previous paragraph refers to functional limits. The misstatement that got us here sources from licensing limits. Licenses are legal things. You give money to Microsoft, they allow you to run their product. For this discussion, their operating system products concern us. The licenses in question allow us to run instances of Windows Server. Each distinct, active Windows kernel requires sufficient licensing.
If you need to run three or more virtual instances of Windows Server, then you buy more licenses for the host. Each time you satisfy the licensing requirements, you have the legal right to run another two Windows Server Standard instances. Due to the per-core licensing model introduced with Windows Server 2016, the minimums vary based on the total number of cores in a system. See the previously-linked eBook for more information.
If you need to run Linux or BSD instances, then you run them (some distributions do have paid licensing requirements; the distribution manufacturer makes the rules). Linux and BSD instances do not count against the Windows Server instances in any way. If you need to run instances of desktop Windows, then you need one Windows license per instance at the very least. I do not like to discuss licensing desktop Windows as it has complications and nuances. Definitely consult a licensing expert about those situations. In any case, the two virtualized instances granted by a Windows Server Standard license can only apply to Windows Server Standard.
Mostly, people choose Datacenter Edition for the features. If you need Storage Spaces Direct, then only Datacenter Edition can help you. However, Datacenter Edition allows for an unlimited number of running Windows Server instances. If you run enough on a single host, then the cost for Windows Server Standard eventually meets or exceeds the cost of Datacenter Edition. The exact point depends on the discounts you qualify for. You can expect to break even somewhere around ten to twelve virtual instances.
Both Standard and Datacenter Edition can participate as full members in a failover cluster. Each physical host must have sufficient licenses to operate the maximum number of virtual machines it might ever run simultaneously. Consult with your license reseller for more information.
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If i have a physical Hyper V server with 2012 R2 Standard Edition as operating system, Can i have different Server Edition as Guest VM, like Datacenter edition? Or can i only use standard edition as server guest VM?
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I have IE 10 installed on windows server 2012 standard. I want to download and install IE11, but I see no option to do that. We have few apps which we are making compatible to IE11 and being a developer I can't install it on my machine.
After the transition, the Windows Server Essentials features remain on the server and are supported for up to 75 users and 75 devices. If you exceed either of these limits, you should use the Windows Server native tools to manage user accounts and devices.
This process can take 20-30 minutes in my experience. I have also seen it hang once indefinitely and not work. Unfortunately we were not able to figure that one out. If you are still having trouble though, I would review the CBS and DISM logs from the time you tried the upgrade. These logs can be found in the C:\windows\logs folder.
To upgrade the edition from Essentials to Standard, you just run the dism set-edition command. Following the steps above is all you need to do to upgrade and remove the restrictions, but not the features, of Essentials.
Hi there. We have a customer who has a DC (host) with Server essentials 2016 and a VM with Server 2016 Standard. Their VM is showing as not activated and is using KMS. We are looking to activate the VM with a retail license key.
To answer the first question. No features will be lost by upgrading the host. Just keep in mind Essentials features are only designed for a max of 75 users.
Activating the VM should be fairly straightforward. Just run these two commands: slmgr /upk followed by slmgr /ipk
I must add there are a couple of problems that should be addressed with the environment. First, you should never run the ADDS and Hyper-V role on the same host OS install. Second, when running any roles or applications other than Hyper-V on the host, you only get one VM license. The reason for this is that the Standard license only permits running 2 instances of the OS for workloads, not 3. Lastly, if you upgrade Essentials edition to Standard, make sure and purchase some CALs as the included 25 CALs with Essentials do not upgrade to Standard CALs.
Now I want to remove the Essential Features but the TurnOffFeaturesWizard tool is missing both through the Dash Board and in Bin folder. Are you able to help with resolution of this? Any help will be appreciated.
I purchased a new license for 2019 Standard and receive the following error. Any tips?:
Error: 87
The specified product key could not be validated.
Check that the specified product key is valid and that it matches the target edition.
I have a server 2016 standard I just built (PDC). I would like to downgrade it to essentials (bought a license key) so I do not have to deal with CALS. I have only 23 pc in enterprise, 2 printers, only 3 users. I only use it as a file server to house files.
Amazon RDS supports several versions and editions of Microsoft SQL Server. The following table shows the most recent supported minor version of each major version. For the full list of supported versions, editions, and RDS engine versions, see Microsoft SQL Server versions on Amazon RDS.
For information about licensing for SQL Server, see Licensing Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS. For information about SQL Serverbuilds, see this Microsoft support article about Where to find information about the latest SQL Server builds.
With Amazon RDS, you can create DB instances and DB snapshots, point-in-time restores, andautomated or manual backups. DB instances running SQL Server can be used inside a VPC. Youcan also use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to connect to a DB instance running SQL Server, and you can use transparent data encryption (TDE) toencrypt data at rest. Amazon RDS currently supports Multi-AZ deployments for SQL Server using SQLServer Database Mirroring (DBM) or Always On Availability Groups (AGs) as a high-availability, failover solution.
To deliver a managed service experience, Amazon RDS does not provide shell access to DBinstances, and it restricts access to certain system procedures and tables that requireadvanced privileges. Amazon RDS supports access to databases on a DB instance using any standardSQL client application such as Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Amazon RDS does not allowdirect host access to a DB instance via Telnet, Secure Shell (SSH), or Windows RemoteDesktop Connection. When you create a DB instance, the master user is assigned to thedb_owner role for all user databases on that instance, and has alldatabase-level permissions except for those that are used for backups. Amazon RDS manages backupsfor you.
A production DB instance should use Multi-AZ deployments. Multi-AZdeployments provide increased availability, data durability, and faulttolerance for DB instances. Multi-AZ deployments for SQL Server areimplemented using SQL Server's native DBM or AGs technology.
If your AWS account has a default VPC, then your DB instance isautomatically created inside the default VPC. If your account does nothave a default VPC, and you want the DB instance in a VPC, you mustcreate the VPC and subnet groups before you create the DB instance.
By default, DB instances are created with a firewall that preventsaccess to them. You therefore must create a security group with thecorrect IP addresses and network configuration to access the DBinstance.
The following table shows the maximum number of supported databases for eachinstance class type and availability mode. Use this table to help you decide ifyou can move from one instance class type to another, or from one availabilitymode to another. If your source DB instance has more databases than the targetinstance class type or availability mode can support, modifying the DB instancefails. You can see the status of your request in the Eventspane.
For example, let's say that your DB instance runs on a db.*.16xlarge with Single-AZ and thatit has 76 databases. You modify the DB instance to upgrade to using Multi-AZAlways On AGs. This upgrade fails, because your DB instance contains moredatabases than your target configuration can support. If you upgrade yourinstance class type to db.*.24xlarge instead, the modification succeeds.
SQL Server Standard Edition uses only a subset of the available processors if the DB instance has more processors than the software limits (24 cores, 4 sockets, and 128GB RAM). Examples of this are the db.m5.24xlarge and db.r5.24xlarge instance classes.
If you have a scenario that requires a larger amount of storage, you can usesharding across multiple DB instances to get around the limit. This approachrequires data-dependent routing logic in applications that connect to thesharded system. You can use an existing sharding framework, or you can writecustom code to enable sharding. If you use an existing framework, the frameworkcan't install any components on the same server as the DB instance.
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