restricting failover nodes to comply with microsoft licencing

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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?

 

[dietmar]

You can define a failover domain (rgmanager), or a 'group' of nodes with new pve-ha-manager in pve 4.X.

 

[udo]

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?

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

 

[dietmar]

Also, each storage has a 'nodes' attribute. So you can restrict the nodes where you can activate volumes.