SC 2012 licensing

Hello,
I have 2 questions about SC 2012 licensing.
1) I have a physical host with 3 VMs. On this host is installed SCOM agent and on 1 of VMs also is SCOM agent. So how many Standard licenses I need?
2) I have physical host with 30 VMs. On this host is installed SCOM agent, but VMs are without agent. Same question.
Thank you,
Best regards

Hi,
You should review the licensing datasheet at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/1/11128EC7-2BE7-480C-9D46-4ECECA9E481A/System%20Center%202012%20Licensing%20Datasheet.pdf
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Yan Li
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