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In this setup, you have wasted purchasing DataCenter licensing for the 2 servers that run as Domain controllers if they are only running domain controllers on them. As for the other servers, as I mentioned, as long as you only have dual 8 core processors in each, then you are covered license wise for all future VMs created on those hosts. You will have to mess with licensing when upgrade time comes, when replacement of hardware comes, etc. But again, if your hosts are dual 8 core systems, you are currently covered for unlimited VMs.

All of your physical boxes need to be loaded with Hyper-V on bare metal. You then spin up your VM’s including the cluster manager role to manage the cluster. Sorry for the confusion the original idea pitched to me was to have a bed of physical servers clustered together using server datacenter licenses , that would host unlimited VM’s on top of them license free. What we have at this point is 2 domain controllers using datacenter, and 4 nodes using hyper-v server core , on top of which he has placed all our VM’s.

First, datacenter licensing isn’t related to clustering. It’s just a way to pay for your capacity, that’s all. Clustering is a specific technology and is very different from what you are discussing here. I don’t believe you mean to talk about clustering at all, just licensing.

We can’t tell if you are trying to tell us that you are using Hyper-V or Windows, as you mention both equally. Domain Controllers are for authentication of workloads and are unrelated to clustering and are unrelated to licensing. So regardless of which sense you are using the term, you have no need for domain controllers. Core licensing is for Windows, not Hyper-V. Hyper-V is not a factor in your licensing discussion, only Windows and the hardware are. Take Hyper-V out of the discussion as it is just extra to talk about that doesn’t relate to what you are trying to ask.

All Windows licensing is on the physical machines, that never changes. There are two issues. The second is activating the VMs. There are three automated ways to activate the VMs. This is generally frowned upon because of the larger footprint and more complicated setup.

I know Scott said this already, but clustering is not a license function of Windows Server DataCenter edition. You license each server for the workload that will run there. Again that is only for what you have listed. But, just so you know host 1 and 2 shouldn’t even exist.

How many Windows Server Datacenter licenses do you have, and do they include Software Assurance? I have a single server running Hyper-V Server , and it’s running 70 virtual machines, and can easily handle a lot more pending memory usage. Typical densities are around VMs per host. Special cases can make it much higher or lower, but that’s the big part of the bell curve for two CPU systems today. Most offices only have one switch, so that’s a pretty huge single point of failure, yet people don’t mitigate that.

That’s just means there’s like double the chance of a server going down. If HA was needed, we’d have it. But it’s not needed or at least can’t financially make a case for it. If the server fails, it stays down until the part is replaced. If it will take too long, you spin up the replica if it’s worth the potential 30 seconds – 15 minutes data loss. This is a correct layout of what we currently have, host 1 and 2 he has setup as DC for the cluster because he states they need to be in there own domain.

Note this is not the domain our agency actually uses is more of a workgroup for the hosts and iscsi. They are physical boxes so they both are using 16 core licenses each as that is the min for a server. The word cluster is miss leading to me because although he says it is a cluster if we lose 1 of the host nodes we lose the vms that are hosted on them until we can attach the vhd and bring them online on one of the other hosts.

If the foundation is ok to be hyper-v server then it brings licensing to question for me. I may be reading it wrong but the jist seams to be that we dont license the hyper-v foundation, but we do insure that we have enough core licenses to cover those machines if audited.

We are a small agency and im pretty sure the over all server footprint we have is extremely bloated compared to what we actually need so I am hesitant to let him proceed now setting up a modern version of the older configuration.

We are working with r servers with 16 cores and 48 gigs of memory so nothing really good enough to handle more then 7 VMs max I would think. To clerify terminology “hyper-v core” was what I was told, when I hear core I think of the server core vs GUI install option. So those 4 hosts are hyper-v server, where as my thinking is we would need to be using server datacenter core instead, I understand it has a bigger footprint, but that is what my reading has pointed me to so far, which is what raised the questions about what he is actually doing and if it is being done correctly.

I think tommorow I will ask for some clerification since after re-reading this I am not certain he knew what he was talking about when providing the update today so I cannot say for certain that he installed server DC core or just the hyper-v server, on the 4 host nodes as he called them. This is getting confusing. So you aren’t talking about “clustering” in the traditional sense – shared storage and all that? It seems like he is telling you what he’s doing, and you have absolutely no idea what’s going on.

Then coming here and throwing around some of the terms you picked up from him talking about it, without understanding any of it. What it’s starting to sound like, is he has a 2-node cluster consisting of Host1 and Host2. I don’t know what you mean as DC There’s no way he has a Domain Controller to run two nodes in a server cluster, that just doesn’t make any sense.

What he presumably means, is that he has host1 and host2 in a 2-node cluster that share storage by some means assuming iSCSI because you mentioned that.

Where is the shared storage located? Is it on a SAN? It could also mean he has host1 and host2 set up to BE the shared storage That said, they should be in the main domain. If you don’t have one, why not? The domain controllers can be VMs on the hosts in the cluster. It is cheaper to add RAM to a host than to add hosts once licensing costs are taken into account.

It seems apparent that he is not talking about real clustering – one host fails, those VMs are offline until he moves the VHDs are moved. We are just getting what you’re picking up from the conversation – if we take what the OP is saying at face value, it definitely doesn’t seem like he knows what he’s doing. The OP told us earlier in the thread that his tech installed two domain controllers – that’s why I wrote up my list above of hosts as I did.

So yes, it appears that the tech installed two Domain Controllers using Windows DataCenter licenses – sigh. This doesn’t require datacenter licensing. The tech has incorrectly informed the OP that the ‘cluster’ needs to be in it’s own domain, not part of the production Active Directory domain.

This is totally wrong. The OP indicated that his tech made a new dedicated Active Directory domain just for this ‘cluster’. I agree with Kevin, there was, is NO reason to make a new domain for this.

Kevin is also correct that RAM and storage added to current hosts are often able to extend current hardware. As mentioned in several of my other posts already,, there is zero need for a new domain just for this. You’re right, this isn’t a cluster in the form of auto failover or HA. It sounds like there is just shared storage – or at least likely shared storage. Hyper-V never requires licensing – it’s free, completely and utterly. You download the installer from the Microsoft Trial website but it’s not a trial, requires no key and never expires , then install on the hardware.

When you purchase Windows Server standard, it includes licensing for 16 cores. If you have a 16 core or fewer server, that’s all you need.

If you have an 18 core or more server, you will need to purchase 2 core add-on packs for every 2 cores over This standard license grants you the rights to have two VMs on a single server. Windows Server DataCenter license includes licensing for 16 cores on a single server. Like standard, if you have more than 16 cores, you need to purchase 2 core add-on packs.

Unlike standard where you are limited to two VMs per license, you get unlimited Windows VMs per license. Now, in your case, it appears that perhaps your vendor instead of selling you 6 Windows Server DataCenter licenses, they sold you only 2 core add-ons. But it does appear they sold you enough to cover all 6 servers worth of cores, so you are likely covered here.

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