microsoft wants a separate license for each possible physical node a vm can run on. the software is licensed per physical computer. is there a way to limit the failover node so we only pay twice as much for windows server licences instead N times as much?
restricting failover nodes to comply with microsoft licencing
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You can define a failover domain (rgmanager), or a 'group' of nodes with new pve-ha-manager in pve 4.X.
Hi,
if the VMs are on storage, which is only accessible on two nodes it should fit. (drbd, or different ceph-pools, which are used only on this nodes...)
Udo
Also, each storage has a 'nodes' attribute. So you can restrict the nodes where you can activate volumes.