Re: Windows VMs on non Windows hypervisors
yes, you license the physical machines that the VMs will run on like it has always been, just now you need to count the cores. So if you have 10 esxi hosts, with 48 cores on each, to run 2 VMs across those 10 hosts you would need 480 core licenses. Licenses are for a physical system, they can be moved only once every 90 days (if you have a VL agreement).
So to cut costs (when only a few windows VMs), you limit the number of hosts the VMs can run on and only in 'DR' cases can they go on to other hosts, where the licenses then are moved too.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
