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SP2 for Vista/2008 or 2008R2 as a KMS host counts virtual machines as well as physical ones. 64bit 2008 vm's were counted as a physical machine earlier for some weird reason. -Anders On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Christopher Bodnar < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure this is accurate. It's my understanding that the threshold of > (5) still requires physical servers, and does not include virtual machines. > If you can point out a MS reference that states otherwise, I'd love to see > it. > > This is a pain for our lab environments that we set up, which primarily run > all virtual machines on ESX clusters. Typically we don't have 5 physical > Windows hosts in those environments, so the KMS activation issue and a > threshold of (5) is always a problem. > > Thanks > > Chris Bodnar, MCSE > Systems Engineer > Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services > Guardian Life Insurance Company of America > Email: [email protected] > Phone: 610-807-6459 > Fax: 610-807-6003 > > > > From: Malcolm Reitz <[email protected]> > To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected] > > > Date: 10/13/2010 07:41 PM > Subject: RE: KMS Best Practices > ------------------------------ > > > > MS made some changes with the last update to KMS. The activation threshold > for Server 2008/2008R2 has been moved down to 5 while remaining at 25 for > other clients. Virtual machines now count towards the threshold, too. That > said, with only 6 servers, Brian is correct in that MAK is the way to go for > them. Are you going to have enough workstations to make this worthwhile? > > I’d put the KMS on a server that will be around longest. > > -Malcolm > > *From:* Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]> > ] * > Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2010 18:27 > * > To:* NT System Admin Issues* > Subject:* RE: KMS Best Practices > > > *You’ll want to MAK the servers. You need 25 machines of a specific type > (e.g. mapped to a specific KMS key) before the KMS activates against MS. * > * * > *Thanks,* > *Brian Desmond* > *[email protected]* <[email protected]> > * * > *c – 312.731.3132* > * * > *From:* Joseph L. Casale > [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>] > * > Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2010 7:17 PM* > To:* NT System Admin Issues* > Subject:* KMS Best Practices > > Getting ready to roll out a bunch of new stuff at a shop as they now have > their OVS keys. I am reading up on setting up a KMS and as trivial as this > appears, are there any concerns by people who have set these up that might > not be outlined in TechNet? 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