Hi All, After searching through the VCL wiki, I am not finding any information on how the KMS windows activation works in VCL.
I have entered our KMS servers in the management node (our old environment is version 2.3.2). However, I am not seeing Windows activations taking place. We often come across reservations that ask for Windows activation. As a temporary measure, I run “slmgr –skms” and “slmgr –ato” from the command line. Then the image is activated. The KMS server is accessible from the VCL network, but it seems that the management node does not appear to properly activate our Windows instances. Can someone please provide more detailed information on how the Windows KMS works in “vcld --setup” on the management node ? Or, perhaps you could point me to some published documentation on KMS Windows activation in VCL? Thanks, -- Al Quiros Enterprise Systems From: Aaron Peeler <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 3:10 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Windows Licensing I think you will need a kms server to address this, but more knowledgable folks on windows license activation will need to confirm. We're using a kms server at NCSU. Aaron On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Dan Huynh <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi everyone, I'm setting up VCL for our lab environment. However, we got into the problem where our windows licences are not enough.( I think) I mean we have the volume licenses for Windows XP, 2003, 2008, 7....But each key only have a limited number of activation. (around 500 activation). If we keep activating and destroying the machines, the number of activation will soon reach the limit. (We get the keys from MSDN subscription.) I remember someone using VCL said that "site licensing is a solution for this case". However, I talked to a Microsoft sale tech, they dont offer site licensing for Windows. I wonder how NC State or anyone handle this problem? What kind of license solution that you use for Windows? Thanks in advance. -- Dan Huynh Cary, NC 27513 -- Aaron Peeler Program Manager Virtual Computing Lab NC State University All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.
