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From: Rob Beard on 3 May 2010 10:23
Hi folks,

Apologies if this isn't the right group to be posting this in.

I've just started working for a new company as the sole IT bod. It
appears my predecessor left the IT systems in a bit of a mess and one of
my tasks is to sort it out.

Now we have a couple of old servers which I'd like to virtualize on to
something a bit newer, not only to save power but also to save a bit of
space in the rather crampt server room.

Now I noticed that one of our servers is running Windows Server 2003
Enterprise Edition. It appears that the copy of Windows Server is also
a retail boxed copy. I've been doing a bit of reading up and I gather
that with Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise and higher (2008, 2008 R2)
it is possible to run 4 virtualized copies of Windows Server on top of
an existing installation of Windows Server using the existing Windows
Server Enterprise license?

Basically what I'd like to do is move the retail boxed license for
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise to a new server (I understand I can't
move OEM licences), then create a couple of virtual machines (not sure
exactly what visualization software I can use, I was thinking maybe
VMWare or Hyper-V) and then create a couple of VM's running Windows
Server 2003 Enterprise.

I was wondering if it was possible to do this with Windows Server 2003
Enterprise Edition as well or if it was a new feature that was
introduced with the Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise license?

Regards,

Rob
From: Dave Patrick on 3 May 2010 11:42
I'd call them up.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295539



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"Rob Beard" wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Apologies if this isn't the right group to be posting this in.
>
> I've just started working for a new company as the sole IT bod. It
> appears my predecessor left the IT systems in a bit of a mess and one of
> my tasks is to sort it out.
>
> Now we have a couple of old servers which I'd like to virtualize on to
> something a bit newer, not only to save power but also to save a bit of
> space in the rather crampt server room.
>
> Now I noticed that one of our servers is running Windows Server 2003
> Enterprise Edition. It appears that the copy of Windows Server is also
> a retail boxed copy. I've been doing a bit of reading up and I gather
> that with Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise and higher (2008, 2008 R2)
> it is possible to run 4 virtualized copies of Windows Server on top of
> an existing installation of Windows Server using the existing Windows
> Server Enterprise license?
>
> Basically what I'd like to do is move the retail boxed license for
> Windows Server 2003 Enterprise to a new server (I understand I can't
> move OEM licences), then create a couple of virtual machines (not sure
> exactly what visualization software I can use, I was thinking maybe
> VMWare or Hyper-V) and then create a couple of VM's running Windows
> Server 2003 Enterprise.
>
> I was wondering if it was possible to do this with Windows Server 2003
> Enterprise Edition as well or if it was a new feature that was
> introduced with the Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise license?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob
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