Ken Moore
Lifetime Supporting Member
That's news to me and a valid consideration. Some of our plant is migrating their HMI to VM. The new ABB DCS for example, are delivered from factory as VMs but I don't recall they are in a Domain. I will have to check.
Also, related to this. I tried to config a Dell server with Server 2019 preinstalled and it won't let me checkout with 2 VM in addition to the host unless I add 2 more license of Server 2019. It seems Microsoft changed their term and according to one site, quote here:
I had thought at one time Microsoft let one use the host license for 2 more VM instances. So, I might as well go with VMware VSXi and stay with Desktop OS as VM.
Vsphere ( if you use it) requires a DNS server. Microsoft has gone to a per 2 core license scheme. I recently did a project with a 16 core CPU, had to by 8 copies of Server. For large projects, Microsoft has a package base on number of host, and unlimited virtual machines. I don't remember the price, but I think it was North of 5k.