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We have some Win 2003 and 2008 servers with OEM licensing. We were told that the OEM will make P2V not workable, and was asked to re-build those OEM servers in virtualization. Think about it that rebuilding servers would be a big job. I want to know if that really is the case. Is there a workaround for the OEM licensing not to be hindrance while on P2V process??<br />
Please help.
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We have some Win 2003 and 2008 servers with OEM licensing. We were told that the OEM will make P2V not workable, and was asked to re-build those OEM servers in virtualization. Think about it that rebuilding servers would be a big job. I want to know if that really is the case. Is there a workaround for the OEM licensing not to be hindrance while on P2V process??
Please help.

MS Server's OEM licensing will mess up P2V while virtualizing the servers ?

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).