Backup File Server to DAS
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@Dashrender said:
It has nothing to do with the tool. It's up to Windows to decide if it will ask or not.
For example, you could replace the motherboard in the server you have now, and it might ask you to re-authorize. It's completely up to Windows.
You could add RAM and windows would ask you to re-authorize... or replace a CPU, which did happen to me.
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You asked about restoring your backup onto an identical server, that too could trigger a re-authorization prompt.
All those things said, you weren't worried about them yesterday, I wouldn't be worried about them today (and by you I mean your company).
I'd do the P2V following the general steps I mentioned above. The worst that happens is you spent some hours and gained the knowledge that it wouldn't work.. .but at best, you've migrated everything to a VM, and freed up a server for something else.
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@IT-ADMIN The worst case scenario is that you P2V, and if it triggers a windows activation on the V, you shut it down and bring the P back up and nothing has changed.
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@Dashrender every single P2V i have ever done has caused Windows to drop its authentic status and require reactivation. I have never seen it stay activated.
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@Dashrender said:
You asked about restoring your backup onto an identical server, that too could trigger a re-authorization prompt.
All those things said, you weren't worried about them yesterday, I wouldn't be worried about them today (and by you I mean your company).
I'd do the P2V following the general steps I mentioned above. The worst that happens is you spent some hours and gained the knowledge that it wouldn't work.. .but at best, you've migrated everything to a VM, and freed up a server for something else.
thank you very much for your clarification
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@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender every single P2V i have ever done has caused Windows to drop its authentic status and require reactivation. I have never seen it stay activated.
OK - I've only done one, about 8 years ago.. so I just don't recall.
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@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender every single P2V i have ever done has caused Windows to drop its authentic status and require reactivation. I have never seen it stay activated.
i get shocked, my dream to visualize is broken
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender every single P2V i have ever done has caused Windows to drop its authentic status and require reactivation. I have never seen it stay activated.
i get shocked, my dream to visualize is broken
Are you servers licensed now? I thought they were. I thought it was only your desktop stuff that was not licensed.
There is no reason the key should fail to reactivate on the new (virtual) hardware. -
@IT-ADMIN said:
i get shocked, my dream to visualize is broken
FYI, it's virtualize, not visualize I'm guessing your browser's spell check doesn't know the word. you need to add it.
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@Dashrender said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
i get shocked, my dream to visualize is broken
FYI, it's virtualize, not visualize I'm guessing your browser's spell check doesn't know the word. you need to add it.
hhhhh yes you are right, my auto-corrector doesn't know virtualize
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@JaredBusch said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender every single P2V i have ever done has caused Windows to drop its authentic status and require reactivation. I have never seen it stay activated.
i get shocked, my dream to visualize is broken
Are you servers licensed now? I thought they were. I thought it was only your desktop stuff that was not licensed.
There is no reason the key should fail to reactivate on the new (virtual) hardware.unfortunately i don't have the windows server 2008 R2 key, when i start working in this company i found 2 windows servers that are activated but i don't have the key
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@JaredBusch said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender every single P2V i have ever done has caused Windows to drop its authentic status and require reactivation. I have never seen it stay activated.
i get shocked, my dream to visualize is broken
Are you servers licensed now? I thought they were. I thought it was only your desktop stuff that was not licensed.
There is no reason the key should fail to reactivate on the new (virtual) hardware.unfortunately i don't have the windows server 2008 R2 key, when i start working in this company i found 2 windows servers that are activated but i don't have the key
so i think there is no chance to activate the V againsave this as displaykey.vbs and then double click on it.
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId")) Function ConvertToKey(Key) Const KeyOffset = 52 i = 28 Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789" Do Cur = 0 x = 14 Do Cur = Cur * 256 Cur = Key(x + KeyOffset) + Cur Key(x + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255 Cur = Cur Mod 24 x = x -1 Loop While x >= 0 i = i -1 KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput If (((29 - i) Mod 6) = 0) And (i <> -1) Then i = i -1 KeyOutput = "-" & KeyOutput End If Loop While i >= 0 ConvertToKey = KeyOutput End Function -
I would still test a P2V in such a way that your current server could still be turned back on in case it does not activate.
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so i will past this in a text file and save as displaykey.vbs and run it on my server, isn't it ??
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@IT-ADMIN Yes.
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@JaredBusch said:
I would still test a P2V in such a way that your current server could still be turned back on in case it does not activate.
can i run this on my windows 7 for trial, because i'm fear this script would do something on the server
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it is still production time
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@IT-ADMIN Yeah you can attempt the P2V on any system you have so you know how it is performed.
Ideally running it on your servers should only be done once you're comfortable doing that.
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@DustinB3403 -- Will that script work on any version of WIndows for the most part?
@IT-ADMIN -- You can run it on Windows 7 and see. That script doesn't actually change any thing on your computer. It just looks at some stuff in the registry and does some math things to get the key out.
