What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Hi All Y'all!
Long time, no see! My personal and work life have been really kicking me in the pants lately. The past 6 months or so have just really blurred together for me, lol.
Popping in to pester with a question again and hopefully go back to being around more soon.
Welcome back.
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end of month meeting; our I-T department has been moved to reporting to the finance VP so its an introduction meeting
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One of my customers called in..
"SO it was doing windows updates..."- Okay, sucks that it ran this early but windows updates are necessary.
"i shut it off and turned it back on. Now it wont do anything.."
- Wait, was it doing windows updates when you turned it off?
"yes.."
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One of my customers called in..
"SO it was doing windows updates..."- Okay, sucks that it ran this early but windows updates are necessary.
"i shut it off and turned it back on. Now it wont do anything.."
- Wait, was it doing windows updates when you turned it off?
"yes.."
Usually the screen says, "Do not turn off."
At least it's billable. -
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One of my customers called in..
"SO it was doing windows updates..."- Okay, sucks that it ran this early but windows updates are necessary.
"i shut it off and turned it back on. Now it wont do anything.."
- Wait, was it doing windows updates when you turned it off?
"yes.."
Usually the screen says, "Do not turn off."
At least it's billable.my exact words were : "okay.. why? the screen says do not turn off for a reason.."
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Long shot, but worth asking
If you have two servers, each with 2x 10 Core CPU so - 40 Cores overall all.
I someone buys a single Datacenter 2019 Volume License (16Core License), Can we just spin up a few VM's that equal 16 Cores?
Or do you "have" to license all cores even if your only going to run 3-4 VM's? (Even if it was limited to run the VM's only on one host)(DON'T SHOUT AT ME) - Both servers are connected to a SAN.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I someone buys a single Datacenter 2019 Volume License (16Core License), Can we just spin up a few VM's that equal 16 Cores?
There's no such thing. Every VM is using hardware with 20 cores. The licensing is by how many cores are in the server, not how many you present to Windows.
So no, you have to license 20 cores. Even for a single VM, even if that VM uses only 1 vCPU itself.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Long shot, but worth asking
If you have two servers, each with 2x 10 Core CPU so - 40 Cores overall all.
I someone buys a single Datacenter 2019 Volume License (16Core License), Can we just spin up a few VM's that equal 16 Cores?
Or do you "have" to license all cores even if your only going to run 3-4 VM's? (Even if it was limited to run the VM's only on one host)(DON'T SHOUT AT ME) - Both servers are connected to a SAN.
Others will chime in with more detail but you WILL need to license for at least 20 CPU's. So you need at least another 2 2-core packs.
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One of my customers called in..
"SO it was doing windows updates..."- Okay, sucks that it ran this early but windows updates are necessary.
"i shut it off and turned it back on. Now it wont do anything.."
- Wait, was it doing windows updates when you turned it off?
"yes.."
Usually the screen says, "Do not turn off."
At least it's billable.actually - probably not billable - under contract.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Or do you "have" to license all cores even if your only going to run 3-4 VM's? (Even if it was limited to run the VM's only on one host)
Every VM has access to a system that can put 20 cores under a single vCPU. The number of VMs, the number of cores assigned to a VM, are not factors in the Windows Server licensing picture.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One of my customers called in..
"SO it was doing windows updates..."- Okay, sucks that it ran this early but windows updates are necessary.
"i shut it off and turned it back on. Now it wont do anything.."
- Wait, was it doing windows updates when you turned it off?
"yes.."
Usually the screen says, "Do not turn off."
At least it's billable.actually - probably not billable - under contract.
Phone/Remote support contract
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If you have two servers, each with 2x 10 Core CPU so - 40 Cores overall all.
Licensing is by server, so 20 is the number to talk about. The number of cores in your building isn't counted.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
(DON'T SHOUT AT ME) - Both servers are connected to a SAN.
Storage is not a factor in Windows licensing. Even if they had awesome RLS you don't need to license special. SAN doesn't give you a discount, but it's just not considered.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I someone buys a single Datacenter 2019 Volume License (16Core License), Can we just spin up a few VM's that equal 16 Cores?
There's no such thing. Every VM is using hardware with 20 cores. The licensing is by how many cores are in the server, not how many you present to Windows.
So no, you have to license 20 cores. Even for a single VM, even if that VM uses only 1 vCPU itself.
yup, 10 core CPUs are likely a stupid purchase these days if you require running windows.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
There's no such thing. Every VM is using hardware with 20 cores. The licensing is by how many cores are in the server, not how many you present to Windows.
So no, you have to license 20 cores. Even for a single VM, even if that VM uses only 1 vCPU itself.
That's what i thought
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
(DON'T SHOUT AT ME) - Both servers are connected to a SAN.
Storage is not a factor in Windows licensing. Even if they had awesome RLS you don't need to license special. SAN doesn't give you a discount, but it's just not considered.
I only said that as you don't like SAN's and this isn't my setup
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Hi All Y'all!
Long time, no see! My personal and work life have been really kicking me in the pants lately. The past 6 months or so have just really blurred together for me, lol.
Popping in to pester with a question again and hopefully go back to being around more soon.
Welcome back.
Thanks, lol.
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what am i doing right now? bugger all, that's what!
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