where to find free hyper-v product key
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@DustinB3403 said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@Mike-Davis said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
I have a physical server with a COA for Server 2008 R2. It's the one that has two product keys on it. One for the host and one for the VMs.
I want to virtualize it, but would rather go with a newer version of Hyper-v.
That COA is stuck with the hardware, you aren't allowed to migrate it into a VM.
You'll have to purchase licensing with downgrade rights to be able to create 2008 R2 VM's.
WHAT?!?!
Yes you can! you can definitely put it in a VM, but only on that same hardware.
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@JaredBusch said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@DustinB3403 said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@Mike-Davis said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
I have a physical server with a COA for Server 2008 R2. It's the one that has two product keys on it. One for the host and one for the VMs.
I want to virtualize it, but would rather go with a newer version of Hyper-v.
That COA is stuck with the hardware, you aren't allowed to migrate it into a VM.
You'll have to purchase licensing with downgrade rights to be able to create 2008 R2 VM's.
That is completely false.
You are 100% allowed to migrate it to a VM.
But that VM must always remain on that physical box.
Yeah I was adjusting it when you replied.
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@DustinB3403 said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@Mike-Davis said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
I have a physical server with a COA for Server 2008 R2. It's the one that has two product keys on it. One for the host and one for the VMs.
I want to virtualize it, but would rather go with a newer version of Hyper-v.
That COA is stuck with the hardware, you aren't allowed to migrate it into a VM.
You'll have to purchase licensing with downgrade rights to be able to create 2008 R2 VM's.
I don't believe that that is true. The VMs are stuck on the hardware, but the OEM License works just fine with them. I've never heard of there being any issue virtualizing an OEM copy of a Server OS.
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@DustinB3403 said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@JaredBusch said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@DustinB3403 said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@Mike-Davis said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
I have a physical server with a COA for Server 2008 R2. It's the one that has two product keys on it. One for the host and one for the VMs.
I want to virtualize it, but would rather go with a newer version of Hyper-v.
That COA is stuck with the hardware, you aren't allowed to migrate it into a VM.
You'll have to purchase licensing with downgrade rights to be able to create 2008 R2 VM's.
That is completely false.
You are 100% allowed to migrate it to a VM.
But that VM must always remain on that physical box.
Yeah I was adjusting it when you replied.
That's what you get for being slow.
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@scottalanmiller said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@DustinB3403 said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@JaredBusch said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@DustinB3403 said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@Mike-Davis said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
I have a physical server with a COA for Server 2008 R2. It's the one that has two product keys on it. One for the host and one for the VMs.
I want to virtualize it, but would rather go with a newer version of Hyper-v.
That COA is stuck with the hardware, you aren't allowed to migrate it into a VM.
You'll have to purchase licensing with downgrade rights to be able to create 2008 R2 VM's.
That is completely false.
You are 100% allowed to migrate it to a VM.
But that VM must always remain on that physical box.
Yeah I was adjusting it when you replied.
That's what you get for being slow.
LOL
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@DustinB3403 said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@Mike-Davis said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
I have a physical server with a COA for Server 2008 R2. It's the one that has two product keys on it. One for the host and one for the VMs.
I want to virtualize it, but would rather go with a newer version of Hyper-v.
That COA is stuck with the hardware, you aren't allowed to migrate it into a VM.
You'll have to purchase licensing with downgrade rights to be able to create 2008 R2 VM's.
that's not true - that's IMPOSSIBLE
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@DustinB3403 said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
You'll have to purchase licensing with downgrade rights to be able to create 2008 R2 VM's.
There is basically no such thing as purchasing licensing with downgrade rights. All volume licensing has it. The only license model that does not is OEM.
No one should ever be buying OEM server licensing today.
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The server has the COA on it. I'm wiping the server and installing Hyper-v on it and creating a VM that the server is licensed for.
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@JaredBusch said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
No one should ever be buying OEM server licensing today.
Or in the past really, either.
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@Mike-Davis said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
The server has the COA on it. I'm wiping the server and installing Hyper-v on it and creating a VM that the server is licensed for.
Perfect. Hyper-V 2016 with a 2008 R2 VM is perfectly good.
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@scottalanmiller said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
@JaredBusch said in where to find free hyper-v product key:
No one should ever be buying OEM server licensing today.
Or in the past really, either.
Pre virtualization, it really did save a little money because you left it on that server till it died anyway. Most SMB would never reuse it. By the time their server died, they would be getting a new OS anyway. There was little point in going to VLSC back then for the SMB
