License of R2 Hyper - V Windows server 2012

Hello

I am an administrator of a small business network and we are currently planning to virtualize our four servers on two ML350 servers. We have three licenses of 2012r2 (think that's standard lisences). Before we decide to do what I have to know how much it will cost. However I have some problems to understand the total cost of having two physical servers running Hyper-V where one of them will be the main host that performs all four virtual servers and the other for failover.

That's how I think it works:

I need to have four standard lisences 2012r2 in order to run all four virtual servers on both physical Hyper-V hosts, then I will also need four licenses of server for four virtual servers running. So a total of 8 Server licenses. Is this correct? If not, what do I need?

Hello Marius,.

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