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[ARCHIVED] How to get Extended Security Updates for eligible Windows devices

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Oct 17, 2019
Note:  A new version of this blog post was published on February 11, 2020. Update 11.26.2019: Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) will be available via the Cloud Solution ...
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ZoltN
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Dec 05, 2019

Hi Guys,

 

We plan to use ESU for 2008 servers we could not upgrade.   For a vmware hosted environment with virtual machines how does it work? Let say we license the hosts with latest Windows OS DC and ESU DC.   If I am not mistaken it would be unlimited number of 2008 VMs we could activate the ESU MAK on each of the hosts.  Let say we have 3 hosts in a vmware cluster, all 3 licensed for DC edition of both OS and ESU for the proper number of CPU cores    How many MAK keys we will get? One for each host? What  if later the VMs are moved around the hosts? 

What is the situation in the case of STD OS and ESU?  How many VM we can activate  with a single MAK key?  Let say we have 2 hosts each with 2 VM. We license both hosts for 4 VMs.  How many MAK key we get? How many VM can be activated by each key? 

 

Regards, 

ZoltN