Windows Server 2022 License help

[Eddie D]

Hi

Need some help please.

We have a client looking at purchasing a new server ( Dual Xeon Gold CPU 24 Cores / 48 threads)
Our supplier has quoted on Windows Server 2022 Standard ROK 16CORE.
We will be installing 2 x VM on the server


Question : Will all the cores be made available with this version? or only 16 cores will be available ?
So will the OS be fully functional or limited ?


Lastly, if this is incorrect, what would be the correct license to purchase, bearing in mind there are 2 CPUS with 24 cores each
Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks
E

 

[InvisibleJim]

Hi

Need some help please.

We have a client looking at purchasing a new server ( Dual Xeon Gold CPU 24 Cores / 48 threads)
Our supplier has quoted on Windows Server 2022 Standard ROK 16CORE.
We will be installing 2 x VM on the server


Question : Will all the cores be made available with this version? or only 16 cores will be available ?
So will the OS be fully functional or limited ?


Lastly, if this is incorrect, what would be the correct license to purchase, bearing in mind there are 2 CPUS with 24 cores each
Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks
E

I don't think it will block access to any CPU cores, you just won't be correctly licensed. You server has 48 cores so if the ROK license comes in 16 core bundles you would need 3 of those.

For Windows Server standard, I believe you need to license all cores on your host for every 2 Windows VM's on the host (unless they changed it since the last time I looked!) Windows Datacenter you license all cores and then have unlimited Windows VM's

 

[eepr0m]

For Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition, the licensing is based on physical cores, not threads. Each license covers up to 16 physical cores. Since you have Dual Xeon Gold CPUs with a total of 48 cores, you would need three licenses to fully cover all the cores.

For your configuration with 2 VMs, you would need to account for the host's cores plus the cores allocated to the VMs. If you want all cores to be available for your VMs and the host, you'd require 3 licenses.

 

[Rickster]

Rather create 2 VM's and use the spare 8 cores on another VM.

If its for client surely they don't need all 24 cores.

If its also a big server doing a lot of kak, rather split them up, don't keep all your eggs in one basket.