SOLVED: What is the Different Between System Center 2012 Datacenter and Standard?

As you likely already know System Center 2012 combines 5 older products into one new product.  So System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM, no longer exists as a standalone product. 

The difference between SC 2012 DataCenter and SC 2012 Standard boils down to just two things:

• Money: Datacenter is about $4000 and Standard is about $1500
• Virtual Machines: Datacenter supports unlimited VM’s but Standard only supports 2

 

	Datacenter	Standard
# of physical processors per license	2	2
# of Managed Operating System Environments (OSEs) per license	Unlimited	2
Includes all System Center server management components	Y	Y
Right to run management server software and supporting SQL Server Runtime (SQL Server Standard Edition)	Y	Y
Manage any type of supported workload	Y	Y
Open No Level (NL) License and Software Assurance (L&SA) 2-year price	US $3,607	US $1,323

 

Example of licenses required: 

	Datacenter Server MLs Required	Standard Server MLs Required
One 1-processor, non-virtualized server	1	1
One 4-processor, non-virtualized server	2	2
One 2-processor server with 3 virtual OSEs	1	2
One 4-processor server with 8 virtual OSEs	2	4

 

Client Management Licenses (MLs) are required for managed devices that run non-server OSEs. There are three System Center 2012 Client ML offerings:

	Configuration Manager Client ML		Endpoint Protection Subscription	Endpoint Protection Subscription
Components Included	Configuration ManagerVirtual Machine Manager		Endpoint Protection	Service ManagerOperations ManagerData Protection ManagerOrchestrator
Included in Core CAL Suite		Y	Y
Included in Enterprise CAL Suite	Y		Y	Y
Open NL L&SA 2-year price	$62		$22	$121