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Hyper-V Licensing Question
I am just trying to get some clarification on the Hyper-V Licensing as I can't find this anywhere.
could someone confirm the following:
If you are running Server 2008 R2 Datacenter as a hyper-v node, can you then run any version of server 2008 (standard, enterprise, datacenter) as a guest operating system. You can also run unlimited # of these on that host, without licensing the guests individually yes?
I have seen articles that state you can run an unlimited # of guests, but not tell you what OS's you can use for the guests, or if they need to be licensed individually.
could someone clarify that.
could someone confirm the following:
If you are running Server 2008 R2 Datacenter as a hyper-v node, can you then run any version of server 2008 (standard, enterprise, datacenter) as a guest operating system. You can also run unlimited # of these on that host, without licensing the guests individually yes?
I have seen articles that state you can run an unlimited # of guests, but not tell you what OS's you can use for the guests, or if they need to be licensed individually.
could someone clarify that.
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Is there a special license code? we have been using our enterprise open license codes for our servers to date as i figured as much
Special license code? Not sure what you mean.
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I see, so the Datacenter code works for all versions?
Yes.
Oh, you were talking about keys for activation...my fault.
See here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/downgrade-rights.aspx
Scroll down to either OEM or volume licensing depending on which one you are (near bottom of page).
If you are still in doubt, I would contact your Microsoft account rep, especially if you have a volume license (EA, Open, Select) and verify your options with them. The licensing support staff can assist as well.
See here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/downgrade-rights.aspx
Scroll down to either OEM or volume licensing depending on which one you are (near bottom of page).
If you are still in doubt, I would contact your Microsoft account rep, especially if you have a volume license (EA, Open, Select) and verify your options with them. The licensing support staff can assist as well.
Just FYI...it's up to you how you assign points, but Kevin is also correct that a KMS service in house works well. If you're a small shop it's unnecessary but if you have hundreds of activations it works very well.
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Oh, I didn't notice the different name, i thought there was only two of you. can i fix that?
If you want to change point assignments you'll need to click the "Request Attention" box directly below your original question.
I think that KMS is worth it at about a dozen machines.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/E/4/9E4CCEC9-222B-4563-8DCD-43F941ABA73F/Licensing_Microsoft_Server_Products_Virtual_Environments.docx
http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/DocumentSearch.aspx?Mode=3&DocumentTypeId=1