OK I hope someone from MS can chime on this over the weekend, or someone else that might be in the know. I have seen MS documents previously that showed licensing for Server 2008 STD was 1 physical install and up to 2 virtual installs per license, but if you had two virtual installs the physical install could only run the Hyper-V management role. So I am trying to audit licensing at my new employer and I have a license summary from MS (what their records show we have). Most of our stuff is 2008 R2 and I wanted to confirm licensing terms. I was a little surprised when I found the attached that says it is 1 physical and 1 virtual and that if you run the 1 virtual the physical install can only be used for Hyper-V management. This was different than I understood it for Server 2008. But I went digging and found the document attached in my follow post below which indicates this is also the case with Server 2008 and there is a note next to it that says "(new change)".
So I have two questions based on this.
Is this the case, in other words 2008 and 2008R2 really only have one effective licence for the server to actually provide services (other than Hyper-V)?
and
If Server 2008 did have a license change was it retroactive to existing install purchased and installed under the original licensing terms?
Thank you in advance for any help and insight anyone can provide.
Edit I can't attach the pdf documents they are too large. But here are links to the documents I just read (the second one is from google search - it automatically downloads the PDF, doesn't bring you to a web page) http:/