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Martin Hope
Paul Hadfield
Asked: 2010-09-10 07:30:38 +0800 CST
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?

This question would be for anyone that has downloaded from MSDN Windows Server 2008 R2 Data Centre edition and set it up in a Hyper-V / VM environment (Note: this is for a development/testing (non-production) environment!).

I see if you purchase the Data Centre edition you get unlimited virtual images, where as if you purchase Enterprise you get licenses for the host + 4VM instances. (taken from this comparison chart)

I know with MSDN you get 'x' keys for each instance of the O/S that you can download (is it 5 or 10 for 2008 Server?). So taking it to the extreme I am wondering if you could install 10 instances of the data centre edition and have each one running 20 virtual instances? As long as it's not being used for production then that would be OK.

To put this in context, we are looking to set up a virtualised development environment that may have the requirement for 5 instances. We are wondering if that would need 5 keys (one for each instance) or could it be done through a single Data Center installation?)

Hopefully that makes sense. As MSDN allows you to set up for development / testing this does feel like something common.

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Martin Hope
Paul Hadfield
Asked: 2010-09-08 01:55:19 +0800 CST
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Can anyone with experience of implmementing / running a Lucene.NET solution recommend rough system specifications for a live environment. Is it processor, memory or disk intensive. Does it only use a single processor, so having a box with multiprocessors / cores wouldn't return much benefit, etc?

This is for a greenfields development so there is no relevent existing system to base usage from. It is expected that the data we would be indexing would contain 200K documents (customers) and would contain the standard stuff like name, contact details and a couple of addresses - so each record wouldn't be too big.

Helpfully we need to start our hardware recommendations before we really have chance to create any test solution - and the hardware that currently exists would make any tests difficult to compare / draw conclusion from.

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