Hello,
Hopefully this forum is okay to discuss this! It's hard to find concise answers :(
We have a fairly unique situation we need to license for, so hoping someone can explain which license and model to use.
Basically we have say 20 dedicated servers running VirtualBox hypervisor. At any time there will only ever be one Windows 2008 R2 VM running on this host, but it could be deleted and a new image made (the image is not persistent, each time it would be a new VM from our template).
Looking at the licensing options it would seem Windows 2008 R2 Standard would cover this since there is only one VM running at once?
If that is the case, since these VMs don't have public network access, I presume we would have to have a local KMS? I believe that involves using a certain key on the VM and sysprep'ing it to configure/license against the KMS on VM creation?
If that is also the right way of doing it, I presume the type of licensing we would ask our hosting provider for is a volume license?
Hopefully all this is available via SPLA as well, since the VMs may or may not be running month-to-month.
A lot of assumptions I know, but I'm not very familiar with Windows licensing and the information around the net confuses me as it seems to change quite rapidly and suggestions people make become invalid as a new model arrvies etc.
Thanks!