Windows 2016 Licensing Cores

Hpe has created a windows server 2016 core licensing calculator to help you determine the licensing requirements for your customers systems.

Windows 2016 licensing cores.

We ve been receiving a number of questions recently about how to properly license an environment with windows server 2016. To give you a more consistent licensing experience across multi cloud environments we transitioned from processor based licensing to core based licensing for windows server 2019 datacenter and standard editions. Things just got a lot more complicated. To run windows server 2016 you need to purchase licenses for a minimum of 16 cores per two physical processors.

This translates to you needing to purchase a minimum of 8x two core packs for every two physical processors in your server. Microsoft windows server 2016 to move to per core licensing. Core based licensing new minimum license counts feature differences between the versions. This is the equivalent of a regular standard windows server 2012 r2 license.

You simply select the edition standard or datacenter input the number of processors and cores that need to be licensed and it will calculate the number and type of licenses that are required. In addition to the base windows server cal or external connector license some functionalities will continue to require the purchase of an. Microsoft s windows server 2016 due in the third quarter of 2016 will be moving from per processor to per core pricing.