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<\/p>\nA pain point for virtualization and cloud administrators is the activation of Windows.\u00a0 In particular, large enterprises and hosters that are running multi-tenant clouds with network isolation find this particularly troubling.\u00a0 You could activate VMs by hand but that would eliminate self-service.\u00a0 You could fire up KMS \u2013 but that means you need to route all your VM Networks to an administrative network to have access to your KMS machine.\u00a0 Even smaller companies hate the added complexity \u2013 \u201cI\u2019ve paid for Datacenter edition so why do I need to activate all the VMs that I\u2019m entitled to?\u201d.\u00a0 Microsoft engineering agreed.<\/p>\n
Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition hosts (no matter what source of license you have) will provide automatic activation of the VMs running on them, as long as the host is activated.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing more to it than that \u2026 deploy a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM on WS2012 R2 Datacenter edition, and it will activate automatically.\u00a0 Your licensing, your networking, your administrative costs all just got easier and lower.\u00a0 You gotta love that!\u00a0 And there\u2019s a reason to deploy WS2012 R2 in your VMs <\/p>\n
Note: you don\u2019t enter product keys at all in the VMs.\u00a0 This is great for hybrid cloud and VM mobility.\u00a0 Say a customer creates a VM in a hosting company cloud from a template\/gallery item.\u00a0 It is automatically activated with no product key entered<\/em> using this new feature.\u00a0 Say the customer downloads the VM.\u00a0 Now it\u2019ll need re-activation (maybe automatically if placed on WS2012 R2 Hyper-V), and possibly a product key, depending on the customer\u2019s virtualization.<\/p>\n A pain point for virtualization and cloud administrators is the activation of Windows.\u00a0 In particular, large enterprises and hosters that are running multi-tenant clouds with network isolation find this particularly troubling.\u00a0 You could activate VMs by hand but that would eliminate self-service.\u00a0 You could fire up KMS \u2013 but that means you need to route … Continue reading “Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V \u2013 Automatic Activation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,183,195,120],"class_list":["post-14912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-licensing","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Technorati Tags: Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,Hyper-V<\/a>,Virtualisation<\/a>,Licensing<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"