MS Server R2 Standard & Hyper V

Question

We have a physical 2012 R2 Standard DC. Can the Hyper-V Manager be loaded and two Virtual servers be created within the licensing of MS 2012 R2 licensing?

Answer 1

Yes if you have only the Hyper-V's role on the physical's host, but no if you have a DC on it like you seem to have.

If you want to have a lightly virtualized environment, you can choose to run multiple instances of Windows Server by licensing Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard edition. For both Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and Datacenter editions, you need to license all the physical processors on the server. For each license for Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard that you assign to a server you may run, at any one time, two instances of the server software in up to two virtual OSEs on the server. If all two instances are running in virtual OSEs, you can also run an instance in the physical OSE solely to run hardware virtualization software, provide hardware virtualization services, or run software to manage and service OSEs on the licensed server.

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