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 Windows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images for Hyper-V (180 Days)Brief DescriptionWindows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation Enterprise Edition and Server Core Virtual Hard Drive Images for Hyper-V On This PageQuick Details
OverviewThe Microsoft VHD format is the common virtualization file format for Hyper-V that provides a uniform product support system, and provides more seamless manageability, security, reliability and cost-efficiency for customers. This VHD release is available in English only and is for evaluation and testing purposes. Evaluating any version of Windows Server 2008 R2 software does not require entering a product key, however will require activation within 10 days. Failing to activate the evaluation will cause the licensing service to shut the machine down every hour (The 10 day activation period can be reset four (4) times by using the rearm command. See below for further information on activation rearm). Once activated, the evaluation will run for 180 days. After this time, you will need to uninstall the evaluation software and reinstall a fully-licensed version of Windows Server 2008 R2. As this installation requires Hyper-V, you will need to have a base install of Windows Server 2008 (64-bit edition) or Windows Server 2008 R2, running Hyper-V. For more information on obtaining and installing the latest version of Hyper-V, please visit the Hyper-V Homepage. Both virtual machines available here are running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition Evaluation. One is the default full installation, and the other has been configured as a default Core installation. For more information on the difference between full and core installation please see the Windows Server 2008 Editions Overview pages. For download options please see the IMAGE SELECTION section in the instructions below. As both virtual machines do not have anti-virus installed, they should not be connected to any network until it has anti-virus installed. System Requirements
Processor: 2.0 GHz or faster (x64) Hardware Assisted Virtulization Required Disk Space: At least 10.0 GB of free disk space RAM: 2.5 GB of available physical RAM** *The VM images themselves are 64bit images and as such you will need to determine 32bit application compatibility for the applications you may wish to install. * *The amount of physical RAM depends on what applications are running on the Server. You can use the Task Manager to identify how much physical RAM is available on your machine. Running applications other than Hyper-V will consume available physical RAM. InstructionsUsing the Windows Server 2008 R2 VHD with Hyper-V
IMAGE SELECTION To make is easier to download the VHD images, we have created 2 different ways to download the files. You have the choice of downloading the entire compressed files as one image, or as a multi-part archive (All images are self-extracting archives). Below is the session legend (you can also download these files by right-clicking on them and saving them to your system). Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation (Full Edition) Single Image Multi-part Image
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation (Server Core) Single Image Only Additional InformationPlease refer to the documents below for further information How to manually rearm the 10 day activation grace period When the initial 10-day activation period nears its end, you can run the Slmgr.vbs script to reset it back to 10 days. To do this, follow these steps: This resets the activation period to 10 days, and can be used up to four times. After this you will need to either activate or reinstall the evaluation. Files in This DownloadThe links in this section correspond to separate files available in this download. Download the files most appropriate for you.
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