November 07, 2009
How Many Servers Can A Ms Virtual Server Host For Free?
Posted by: the_boz : Category: Free Hosting
MS are saying their Virtual Server product is free, but there are reports that state is is only free if you have four or less guests on one Host.
November 7th, 2009 at 12:21 am
If the Host is Windows Server 2003 Enterprise you can host an addtional 4 Server Guest VM’s for free. After that you will have to pay for the additional licenses. For example if you had a Server 2003 Ent Host with 6 Server 2003 Std. and 5 Linux Guests. You’d have to pay for:
1 x Server 2003 Enterprise license
2 x Server 2003 Standard license
It doesn’t matter if you use Virtual Server or VMWare as the Virtualization software.
November 7th, 2009 at 12:21 am
23,
i think,
yes , i may think it is right
November 7th, 2009 at 12:21 am
To Quote MS: “The number of virtual machines running per host depends on several things, including physical memory, processor, and workload running in the guest. With Virtual Server 2005 R2, you define the amount of memory available to a virtual machine, and that memory allocation can be altered to reflect the needs of the virtual machine.”
Thus it really depends on the amount of memory in the hosting machine and the allocation.