I apologize for the question but in my searching of Spiceworks and elsewhere, I can't seem to get a straight answer on the question of activation and license keys.
I have 3 licenses of Win Server 2012 R2 datacenter. I have 3 ESXi 5.5 hosts with 2 physical CPUs each. So I'm covered with 1 datacenter license per host.
Where I'm lost is, how do I "assign" a license to each host? And more importantly, when I start building 2012 R2 virtual machines, what product key am I activating with? Do I install the Datacenter edition and use the license key associated with it? Everything I've read on how to do this has to do with Hyper-V, which sums it up as install Datacenter on your host, install Standard as your VMs and activate through the hypervisor (I may have this wrong, we don't use Hyper-V so I don't care to know the ins and outs of a product I...