pinning HA migrations to specific hosts

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So windows server is licensed specifically to physical hosts. It seems (im not a lawyer), that to run windows server in an HA environment, you actually need to license windows to all physical hosts.

since wed rather only pay double than a whole set of licenses for each physical node, is there a way to specify which host windows servers can migrate to?

 

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Search fail-over domain in the wiki.

 

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it said there were no results and asked me to make the page. the howto page didnt have failover either. is there another term?

 

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Maybe search without the hyphen, just "failover domain"

This topic has been discussed and solutions given in this forum numerous times.

IANAL but my understanding is you only need to license the host that windows is running on, not every host it could run on. You would only need to pay double if the software was running on two hosts at the same time.

 

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i found failover domains with google.

heres the licensing overview. its pretty clear that you can only move virtual instances to physical nodes with enough licenses. still need to work out the details. ive done openstack and it was much easier than this figuring out this licensing nonsense.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=18795