Windows activation, at least for 2008 and below, depend on enough hardware changes to happen. Each HW (of non-pluggable devices) change is a single 'penalty' point - except for NIC (based on MAC address) which is more. 4 or so points - and it requires re-activation. This does not apply to KMS licenses.
So unless you drastically change the hardware, you should be safe. Y. On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Nicolas Ecarnot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Most of our virtual machines are Linux, but an increasing number of > windows VMs are being integrated into our oVirt DCs. > > We bought tons of windows server licences, and successfully activated them. > > Due to how Windows Product Activation is working, when a windows VM is > migrating from a host to another, this product activation is reset, > launching a 30 days countdown to auto-shutdown. > > According to this old page : > > https://mazimi.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/getting-around-windo > ws-activation-when-virtualizing/ > > and what I can read in microsoft's 2012 server documentations, I then can > re-activate it twice during the next 90 days. > > Assuming I *want* to have *no* control upon the location of the VMs > amongst their hosts (I want them to fly freely, confident in the lovely > auto-balance scheduler), I understand all this is not the way to go. > > At present, we have 2003, 2008 and 2012 server editions. > the only things I can read about windows 2012 server is related to the > commercial aspects (standard licence = 2 VMs, datacenter licencce = > infinite # of VMs), but not about this Windows Product Activation trouble. > > How do you deal with this? > Is there a special licence type or something dedicated that would prevent > such an uncomfortable situation? (Christmas is near, I favor soft terms.) > > Regards. > > -- > Nicolas ECARNOT > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
