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Thursday, April 5, AM. Wednesday, June 27, AM. Your only choice is the eval download. We are using Citrix 6. It’s very simple. But you still install Standard for your VMs.

I am turning my computer into a server it has one cpu and 12gig of ram. I don’t know much about server software and my thought was to put windows server on it and do two vms with windows 7 pro as clienst for educational purposes with two other desk tops on a home lab. My question is with standard you can have two vms, is that so you can install windows server on them for additional roles. Another question is can the host have other roles besides managing the other servers and since there is not much computing going on can I put a lot of roles on one server.

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Track users’ IT needs, easily, and with only the features you need. Learn More ». Thai Pepper. Nick-C This person is a verified professional. JackLuminous wrote: Datacenter makes sense if you think that you might need extra servers at a future point in time. The only difference is licensing. Aaron DeLeskie This person is a verified professional. You’d have to work out the economics, but we went with Datacenter as well.

ErikN This person is a verified professional. I could not find a comparable table on the MS site. To be clear – we are licensed for Datacenter. He said that he already licensed Datacenter. I went with Datacenter for the template. I still have no idea why tbh. That is the intended model.