wikiServer CPUs for Windows Server 2019
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard and Datacenter are licensed using the Windows Server Core Licensing. A basic license for one server contains licenses for 16 cores. Servers with more than 16 CPU cores can be correctly licensed using additional licenses. In this wiki article we show exemplary server configurations that work without such additional licenses and thus offer an optimal price/performance ratio with respect to the license costs.
The following table shows exemplary 2U servers with 8 HDD/SSD slots, each offering 16 cores per server. Thus, a basic license for Windows Server 2019 Standard or Windows Server 2019 Datacenter is sufficient for these server configurations:
| Server with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs | Server with AMD EPYC 7002 Rome CPUs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Single-CPU RI1208+ v3.0 | Intel Dual-CPU RI2208 v3.0 | Product not available anymore | AMD Dual-CPU RA2208 v1.1 | |
| CPU
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Intel Xeon Silver 4216 (2,10GHz, 16-Core, 22MB) | 2x Intel Xeon Silver 4208 (2,10GHz, 8-Core, 11MB) | ||
| Intel Xeon Gold 5218 (2,30 GHz, 16-core, 22MB) | ||||
| 2x Intel Xeon Silver 4215 (2,50GHz, 8-Core, 11MB) | ||||
| AMD EPYC 7282 (2,80 GHz, 16-Core, 64 MB) | ||||
| 2x Intel Xeon Gold 5217 (3,00GHz, 8-Core, 11MB) | AMD EPYC 7302P (3,00 GHz, 16-Core, 128 MB) | |||
| 2x AMD EPYC 7252 (3,10 GHz, 8-Core, 64 MB) | ||||
| 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6244 (3,60GHz, 8-Core, 24,75MB) | ||||
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