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Windows 2012 License for ESX Hosts

Microsoft states:
If a server is running ESX/ESXi as the virtualization technology, then Windows Server is not deployed as a host operating system in the physical OSE. However, a license is required for every physical processor on the server and every instance running in a virtual OSE should be appropriately licensed (Standard edition will allow up to two virtual instances with each license and Datacenter edition will allow an unlimited number of virtual instances with each license).

So I have datacenter licenses for all ESX processors -- and therefore have legally licenses whatever Windows VMs I run .

What I don't undertstand it how/what to use as license itself in each VM -- we run Windows 2008 R2 still -- and the 2012 license doesn't work for that.

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Crystal
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