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windows server 2008 r2 has two serials ,one is a product key and the other is the virtual key.<br />
what is it mean?.<br />
is it mean that I could install the physical server with the product key and using hyper-v to install another virtual server.so the one license working for two servers but on the same server.or what?
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windows server 2008 r2 has two serials ,one is a product key and the other is the virtual key.
what is it mean?.
is it mean that I could install the physical server with the product key and using hyper-v to install another virtual server.so the one license working for two servers but on the same server.or what?

windows 2008 product key and virtual key

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.

Hyper-V

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.