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The virtualization environment is already setup and running as it should. Each physical server has its Windows Datacenter VM install, activated and running. All is good so far. As part of our project scoping we ensured the client has the proper number of add on packs for DC to match the total numbers of cores in involved.

So from a licensing standpoint we think they are all set and proper. What activation key do we use? We need to bake that key into the standard template. From what I can see there is only one license key and that is the data center OEM key on the chassis. The DC key will only activate DC. KMS only works if they have a Volume License. AVMA is awesome, if you can use it. Buying OEM was a big mistake, unfortunately. Your licensing is fine – you can run the VMs you want. But it’s up to you to find a valid key and valid media for Standard and R2 Standard.

OEM means MS won’t give you media or keys. AVMA binds the virtual machine activation to the licensed virtualization host and activates the virtual machine when it starts up. You can get real-time reporting on usage and historical data on the license state of the virtual machine when using AVMA. Reporting and tracking data is available on the virtualization host.

Service Provider License Agreement SPLA partners and other hosting providers do not have to share product keys with tenants or access a tenant’s virtual machine to activate it. Virtual machine activation is transparent to the tenant when AVMA is used. Hosting providers can use the server logs to verify license compliance and to track client usage history. The virtualization host that will run virtual machines needs to be activated.

In a failover cluster, each virtualization host in the cluster must be activated for VMs to stay activated regardless of which server they run on. The operating system version of the Hyper-V host determines which versions of operating system can be activated in a virtual machine.

Here are the guests that the different version hosts can activate:. On the server that will host virtual machines, install and configure the Microsoft Hyper-V Server role. For more information, see Install Hyper-V Server. Standard Edition provides rights for up to 2 Operating System Environments or Windows Servers containers with Hyper-V isolation when all physical cores in the server are licensed.

For each additional 1 or 2 VMs, all the physical cores in the server must be licensed again. DataCenter Edition provides rights for unlimited Operating System Environments or Windows Servers containers with Hyper-V isolation when all physical cores in the server are licensed. Licences and each package gives you the licenses for 2 Windows based VMs. Since Windows each package contains the right to run it on 16 pCores.

Fail Over cluster and branch cache. Bluecoat with Microsoft NPS. Network policy with processing order 2 or above is not getting executed.