Re: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise visualization licensing

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