Comments on: How Many Servers Can A Ms Virtual Server Host For Free?

By: meatball

meatball — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:21:14 +0000

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.

By: dar

dar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:21:14 +0000

23,
i think,
yes , i may think it is right

By: Taztug

Taztug — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:21:14 +0000

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.