A company has one central data center and five branch offices. Each office has three Hyper-V host servers that
run Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition. Eachbranch office has a system administrator. You planto
deploy virtual machines (VMs) that run Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard edition to each branch office.
You have the following requirements:
The VMs must be activated at the branch offices, even if the branch office has no Internet connectivity.
Activation keys must NOT be shared with the branch office administrators. You must be able to track license
usage from the central location, even without access rights to the VMs.
You must be able to verify license compliance and perform real time reporting on license usage from a central
location.
You need to configure licensing and activation for the VMs.
Which feature or tool should you use?
A.
Multiple Activation Key (MAK)
B.
Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT)
C.
Key Management Service (KMS)
D.
Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA)
i believe this is wrong..
Answer B – is more likely
No, answer D is correct.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn303421.aspx
I was not sure about AVMA’s reporting capabilities, but the article in codemonk’s post confirms that AVMA can do reporting.
If there were physical servers, the only appicable solution would be VAMT.
In the case, with all Datacenter hosts and a fully virtualized environment, AVMA (B) is the BEST answer.
Server datacenter managers can use AVMA to do the following:
•Activate virtual machines in remote locations
•Activate virtual machines with or without an internet connection
•Track virtual machine usage and licenses from the virtualization server, without requiring any access rights on the virtualized systems
There are no product keys to manage and no stickers on the servers to read. The virtual machine is activated and continues to work even when it is migrated across an array of virtualization servers.
AVMA lets you install virtual machines on a properly activated Windows server without having to manage product keys for each individual virtual machine, even in disconnected environments. AVMA binds the virtual machine activation to the licensed virtualization server and activates the virtual machine when it starts up. AVMA also provides real-time reporting on usage and historical data on the license state of the virtual machine. Reporting and tracking data is available on the virtualization server.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn303421.aspx
The central location for AVMA seems to be each Hyper-V hosts. So when you need to check license information you need to check 5×3 hyper-V hosts.
So just for that point i’d say B.