A physical host with the minimum windows standard edition license can operate two virtualized instances of windows server standard edition as long as the physically installed instance only operates the virtual machines.
Windows server 2019 standard edition hyper v.
Network virtualization one of the key roles in windows server network virtualization is the network controller role.
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Datacenter edition offers unlimited virtual machines plus one hyper v host per license.
Virtualization while windows server 2019 standard can be used as a virtualization guest it is limited to 2 virtual machines plus one hyper v host per license.
Do note that this would perhaps be the last version that you would find the essentials edition on windows server.
Physical or minimally virtualized environments.
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Highly virtualized datacenters and cloud environments.
But anything less does not tell the complete story.
Windows server 2019 edition.
2 a physical host fully licensed for windows server 2019 standard edition can run two virtualized instances of windows server 2019 standard edition.
If you run any software in the management operating system for any purpose other than managing the local system and its virtual machines then you forfeit the right to run one of those two.
So you could go from windows server 2019 standard edition to windows server 2012 r2 essentials you don t have to be running hyper v in order to benefit from the virtual ose rules mentioned here if you move a virtual machine to a different virtualization host the host must contain a windows server license that includes the virtual ose licensing.
Those were a few inputs into the significant differences between windows server 2019 essentials and windows server 2019 standard editions.
That means the physical install plus one vm or two vm s if using the free hyper v server or other hypervisor.