{"id":156,"date":"2005-10-10T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1129"},"modified":"2005-10-10T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T17:31:15","slug":"microsoft-changes-virtualization-licensing-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft changes virtualization licensing terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm a big fan of virtualization, mostly because if configured correctly it provides an easy way to make better use of your system resources and, for a heavy tester like me, it provides an excellent way to run and test multiple operating systems, applications and environments without requiring lots of hardware. <\/p>\n<p>From a business perspective, virtualization can be a licensing nightmare. It can also be prohibitively expensive. Although Microsoft's Virtual PC software will work on servers, the Virtual Server product is a much better solution. <\/p>\n<p>Now Microsoft have changed their licensing model. Providing you are virtualizing Windows servers, from Windows Server 2003 R2 you can run up to four virtual servers for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of virtualization, mostly because if configured correctly it provides an easy way to make better use of your system resources and, for a heavy tester like me, it provides an excellent way to run and test multiple operating systems, applications and environments without requiring lots of hardware. <\/p>\n<p>From a business perspective, virtualization can be a licensing nightmare. It can also be prohibitively expensive. Although Microsoft&#8217;s Virtual PC software will work on servers, the Virtual Server product is a much better solution. <\/p>\n<p>Now Microsoft have changed their licensing model. Providing you are virtualizing Windows servers, from Windows Server 2003 R2 you can run up to four virtual servers for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}