Hello hopefully somebody can answer this.
Our virtual machine is running vmware server ESX 3i 3.5.0 It has 2 hard drives, datastore1 and datastore2. All our virtual servers are stored in datastore2. Our hard drive containing datastore2 crashed and it had to be replaced. We have virtual appliance backups of our virtual servers in datastore2.
To fix the issue we replaced the crashed hard disk, and then restored using the virtual appliance backups, once restored we noticed that the Windows 2008 is requiring license activation.
My question is why does windows need activation when we restored the virtual server to the same hardware? The only thing that changed was the hard disk.
Thanks for any help on this question.