The price of 16-core licenses of Windows Server 2016 Datacenter and Standard Edition will be same price as the 2 proc license of the corresponding editions of the Windows Server 2012 R2 version.A minimum of 8 core licenses is required for each physical processor in the server and a minimum of 16 cores is required to be licensed for servers with one processor. To license a physical server, all physical cores must be licensed in the server. What does the change to a Cores + CAL based licensing model bring: Information about other editions of Windows Server 2016 and Windows Storage Server 2016 will be provided in Q1 2016.Standard Edition for non-virtualized or lightly virtualized environments.Datacenter Edition for highly virtualized private and hybrid cloud environments.I picked some of the interesting parts out of the Microsoft released papers: Windows Server 2016 Editions: (Except for one feature called Automatic Virtual Machine Activation.) There is also some interesting scenarios for hybrid cloud deployments using the Azure hybrid use benefit.
In Windows Server 2012 R2 you basically had the same features in both editions and the only difference were Virtual Machine use rights. And the second big change is that there is no feature parity between Standard Edition and Datacenter Edition. For Windows Server 2016 Microsoft is changing from a per-processor licensing to per-core licensing for Windows Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter Editions. There are two big changes in licensing of Windows Server 2016. Microsoft still will have two version of Windows Server 2016 with Datacenter and Standard edition, as they had in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. If you want to make sure you will be licensed correctly, connect with Microsoft and/or Microsoft Partner. This blog post just wants to give you a little consolidated overview about the licensing changes. The information maybe change in the future or are not correct written on my blog. Let’s start first with a disclaimer here: All information on the blog are coming from the Microsoft papers released in December 2015. This is the first time Microsoft is talking about Windows Server 2016 licensing. We already got some interesting technical feature information such as Hyper-V, Containers, Nano Server and much more. Last night Microsoft released more information about Windows Server 2016.
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