The price of 16 core licenses of windows server 2016 datacenter and standard edition will be the same price as the 2 processor license of the corresponding editions of the windows server 2012 r2 version.
Microsoft windows server 2016 standard 2 additional cores.
Microsoft windows server 2016 standard is the base version of the windows server 2016 series and is designed for physical or minimally virtualized environments.
Microsoft windows server 2016 standard 2 additional cores added layers of security enhance security and reduce risk with multiple layers of built in protection built in containers develop and manage with agility thanks to windows server and hyper v containers new deployment options increase a.
For every two additional vms all the cores in the server have to be licensed again.
In addition to the base windows server cal or external connector license some functionalities will continue to require the purchase of an.
Microsoft windows server 2016 standard 2 core license.
Windows server standard and datacenter editions continue to require windows server cals for every user or device accessing a server see the product terms for exceptions or windows server external connector licenses for servers accessed by external users.
To give you a more consistent licensing experience across multi cloud environments we transitioned from processor based licensing to core based licensing for windows server 2019 datacenter and standard editions.