I have a 2 cpu server with an Essentials licensing kit with 4 virtual servers on it. I don't do much that is tricky once these virtual servers are set up. I don't have san's, just a raid array that I casually subdivide for each windows server.
I have another server with 4 CPUs which is idle. Ultimately, I would migrate vm's from old to new, and I see some posts suggesting veeam for that. Can I buy another essentials kits (2 cpus ea, $500 + exg v5 license, or maybe 2 more kits for $1000?) for that to be properly licensed, and migrate to that server? Or do I need 4 standard licenses (one per cpu, $4000).
I would just as soon not drop an extra $3K for this. I would probably try HyperV at that point since it is free.