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Windows Server 2025 Datacenter

Unlimited virtualisation rights for densely consolidated hosts.

Datacenter shares the core licensing model with Standard but permits unlimited operating system environments on the licensed host, which is what makes it the right edition for a consolidated virtualisation platform. It also adds Storage Spaces Direct, Storage Replica without limits and Software Defined Networking.

The break-even against Standard sits at around four to six virtual machines per host. Below that Standard is cheaper; above it Datacenter is, and the gap widens quickly with density.

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