RE: KMS - Does it require Non-virtual 08 Servers to count towards the
Hello Dan,
That would be correct. Only Physical machines are coounted.
See this section on KMS Activation Thresholds
in the following link
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303276.aspx
It talks about counting physical and not virtual machines.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
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| >Does the KMS service only count non-virtual machines running Server 2008
| >towards the initial 5?
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| >I am trying to roll out 08 Std and am running into problems with getting
my
| >count # to go up. I think I have narrowed it down to actual servers vs
| >virtual machines. I have done 7 upgrades with 3 being actual and that
is the
| >number the KMS Server is showing as its current count: 3. I figured
that it
| >would be 7 by now, but its not. I didn't see it anywhere that says
| >specifically that the count is only on real servers...
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