In vCenter, this means removing all options from the License Information portion of the Customization Specifications in ALL customization specs. Ensure the deployment process is not adding license information. If you are using templates, run the first command on the template. These commands need to be run from an administrator-privilege command prompt or PowerShell session. Here are the three commands you will need, using Windows 2012R2 Datacenter as the GVLK: cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk W3GGN-FT8W3-Y4M27-J84CP-Q3VJ9Ĭscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /skms :1688Ĭscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato Once the GVLK is in place, activate the key. The lookup of the KMS Host is done by DNS, but you can manually configure the KMS Client as well. Microsoft maintains a list of GVLKs for each edition of Windows. You have to switch back over to the GVLK and activate using that. The Host key can only be activated 10 times on 6 hosts, so very soon you’ll run into trouble, if not immediately. However, IF you do something silly like put the KMS Host key on your Clients, you won’t get far. It’s a pretty nice setup, all considering. In this case, you are often given media to use for the Windows install that includes the GVLK, so you don’t need to do anything but communicate with the KMS Host. The Client communicates with the Host, which tells the client if it is activated and provides all the necessary information for that to happen (I don’t know how the Host does that, that’s the beauty of letting someone else run that service!). Your nodes will be KMS Clients and they will use a Generic Volume License Key for activation. If you are using a central KMS server that you do not maintain, and someone gives you a KMS key, you can ignore it! That’s for the KMS Host, which is where the licensing happens. I’m not all that familiar with Windows licensing models, so I stumbled into a bit of surprise with KMS keys recently.
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