Microsoft WindowsServer 2019 Datacenter - Core Licensing (Software not included, licensing only!) Minimum license requirement: 8 core licenses per processor, 16 core licenses per server. For further details, please refer to the licensing data sheet. Licensing With the Windows Server 2019 Datacenter, processor cores and accessing Devicesor users (CAL) are licensed. For the licensing of the server applies: Each processor core of the executing hardware must be licensed. If the Windows Server runs on a hardware with 16 cores, exactly 16 cores must be licensed. A minimum of 8 cores per processor must be licensed. For hardware with, for example, 4 processors, each consisting of 4 cores, 4 x 8, i.e. 32 cores, must be licensed due to this minimum requirement. A minimum of 16 processor cores per server must be licensed. The minimum licensing is therefore 16 cores. If a hardware with fewer cores is used, 16 cores must still be licensed. You can buy processor core licenses in 2-core and 16-co...