Windows 10: Licencing Windows 11 Pro vms, on-premise server HyperV / ESXi

Hi, Looking how to licence correctly Windows 11 Pro on a server running Hyper-V or ESXi. What is the correct and most effective’ way of licensing 20 x Win 11 VM’s running on an on-premise server running HyperV or ESXi not bothered which at this stage and what base licences will be required for the devices connecting to the Win 11 vms?Quite urgent!Thanks all!

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Windows 2012 Licensing on ESXi

In a Windows 2012 standard license we can have only 2 VMs; so in one ESXi server(of any sockets) we can host a maximum of 2 VMs; so in my environment we have 3 esxi hosts in a cluster with each running 2 VMs.



so please let me know how much Windows standard/Datacenter license should I procure.



As per my understanding; i will require 3 datacenter licenses.



We cannot have 3 standard windows license because we can have only 2 VMs per host (3 servers); this is OK in ideal case scenario.



But if we need to move one VM from one ESXi host to another i.e

ESXi 1 having 1 VMs

ESXi 2 having 3 VMs ---> violation of licensing

ESXi 3 having 2 VMs

then it will be a violation of the licensing policies.



Please correct if my understanding is wrong.

 

Window's Server Backup, crashing HyperV vms

Hello,

We're backing up a couple of HyperV VM's to external disk, and periodically(about 50% of the time), the VM being backed up will crash during the snapshot process, backup of that component will fail. We're getting;

The disk signature of disk 2 is equal to the disk signature of disk 0
The disk signature of disk 3 is equal to the disk signature of disk 1

warnings in the logs

 

ESXi 4.0 and Ubuntu LTS VM Raw Drive Mapping/Software Raid

I don't really think of one as more powerful or not, they're just aimed at different situations.

Server: computer -> host OS -> Server -> VMs.

ESXi: computer -> ESXi -> VMs.

If you, for example, wanted to use ICHxR or any other RAID controller not supported under ESXi, you could set up the array, install the host OS, then install VMware Server and create VMs.

But if this way is working for you, then by all means go ESXi. It's "closer" to the hardware, so performance is a little better and there's no issues when rebooting a host OS for updates and whatnot.