Hi, 

We recently purchased new Dell kit including 3 x PowerEdge R720 servers and 2 x Equallogic SANs. We are running Hyper-V 2012 as hypervisor. The 3 Dell servers came with Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition preinstalled and pre-activated. We know that Datacenter gives us the ability to run unlimited VMs.  

We’re running a few VMs with Server 2012 Standard installed. My question is which product key should I use to activate/license the Server 2012 Standard guests? I’ve tried using the Server 2012 Datacenter edition keys which were on the Dell Hosts but failed.

 

Does anyone have any ideas?