Virtual Server 2005 R2

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Microsoft strategyVision of virtualization


IT organization benefit when workloads are decoupled from hardware
Increased availability, manageability

Long term, workloads will be increasingly dynamic

Virtualization is a key enabling technology to achieve this


LicensingWindows server licenses


Licensing changes for server products
Virtualization friendly (after 1-Dec-2005)
Only count licenses for running VMs
For per-processor licenses, only count virtual CPUs in VM
Single Win2003 R2 EE license:
1 host + 4x Win2003 R2 EE in guest

Virtualization unlimited (after 1-Oct-2006)
Single Win2003 R2 Datacenter license:
1 host + unlimited Win2003 R2 (any) guests


Specifications


Host
CPU
VS2005 Standard Edition: max 4 CPUs (1 or 2 cores)
VS2005 Enterprise Edition: max 32 CPUs (1 or 2 cores)
Memory: max 64 GB

Guest
CPU: max 1
Memory: max 3.6 GB
Network adapters: max 4 - unlimited bandwidth !
USB: no