Hello, guys!
We have our infra on rented dedicated servers at Canadian services provider.
We used to rent and pay their MS licenses (Win2008R2 Ent) on these servers.
Now we want to use Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 hypervisor on our dedicated servers, because of the smaller footprint, less attck surface, less updates needed to install and no cost.
We installed 5 hosts with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 hypervisor and now we want to move the rest to it. But their engineer states that "
Unfortunately, if you are going to use Microsoft Server on those servers, I'll have to add the licence as we have an SPLA agreement with Microsoft.
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Can you please help to clarify if we're allowed to use this hypervisor or not?
Thank you