cannot find windows server 2012 r2 standard license

It is my understanding that, to take full advantage of VM licensing, the hypervisor cannot hold any other roles than Hyper-V. That does appear to be the case if the Veeam installation caused IIS to be installed. So, Installing Veeam might have been fine, if Veeam didn't try to install any roles to support itself. I'm wondering if that 'did me in'? I did see that IIS had been installed, but I did not finish the Veeam install when it wanted to install SQL Server I cancelled. I don't think there are any limitations regarding other applications installed on the hypervisor, just other roles because I don't know if MS would have any way to program for that possibility to any usable degree. I did 'almost' install Veeam One Free edition on the HyperVisor Host this morning. In that case, I must fall back to my recommendation of running that DISM command to confirm that the version did change from eval to retail.īill-AATFtech wrote:Hi. So, none of the VMs using the AVMA key are activating. the 3rd VM is activated I assume because I had a different Window Server 2012 R2 License Number, but the other 2 VM's we supposed to be activated using the HyperVisor Key#.Ah, yes. I'm wondering if that 'did me in'? I did see that IIS had been installed, but I did not finish the Veeam install when it wanted to install SQL Server I cancelled.īill-AATFtech wrote:Hi.

the 3rd VM is activated I assume because I had a different Window Server 2012 R2 License Number, but the other 2 VM's we supposed to be activated using the HyperVisor Key#. You can license 1 hypervisor and 1 VM if the hypervisor holds other roles than Hyper-V.You can license 1 hypervisor and 2 VMs if the hypervisor holds no roles other than Hyper-V.Server 2012 R2 Standard virtualization licensing can be used in one of two ways: Since 1 activated but the others aren't, I have to ask: Is the hypervisor system running any other role than Hyper-V? If so, then you would only be able to host 1 VM under it. 1 VM is activating and the other 2 aren't? Are they all on the same hypervisor? If so, at best you'd only be able to activate 1 more VM before going over your Server 2012 R2 virtualization licensing.

Cannot find windows server 2012 r2 standard license