In MOST cases, Licensing by Human Being (user) makes the most sense (though if you have a warehouse environment with lots of people and few machines (and none working from home), Device licensing can be more appropriate. Microsoft Licensing is by human being or device. Then the Software pricing on top of this! Server 2022 48 coresand the RDS Cal's for 25 users!ĭoes anyone know the Microsoft Licenses required to run the above config if this config is beefy enough?Īnyone that can help with this would be so appreciated or if there is a 'configuration tool' modern enough to spec this out these days?Īs David suggested, Microsoft doesn't license by Concurrent users. Would this be fast enough with only 2 Xeon Platinum 8168 Procs (48 Cores), 512GB of RAM and the 12Gbps SAS SSDs?

1 x 2.5GB Switch to hook everything together with the Domain Controllers, Quickbooks Servers and other older File Servers and NAS's.

Dell Intel I350 Quad Port 1GbE Network Daughter Card x 1 Dell Broadcom 57810S Dual Port DA/SFP+ 10Gb Network Adapter x 1.

5 x Dell 480GB 12Gbps SAS 2.5' Solid State Drive for RAID 5 for VMs.

2 x Dell 200GB 12Gbps SAS 2.5' Solid State Drive for mirrored OS drive.

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 Processor (2.7 GHz, 24C, 33MB Cache).

The 2022 Server Host will be running two Filemaker Database Servers that require 32GB RAM each and pretty speedy SSD's. I have no idea how to spec out a server powerful enough to handle 25 concurrent Remote Desktop Services (virtual desktops for 25 users so they can run certain apps that don't go well in public clouds).

Terminal server license cost