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Jason_Ruiz
13 years ago

Storage Foundation for Windows Basic 5.1 SP2 on Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter (SP1)

Hello, I downloaded the above product and trying to install on the above OS.  When it tries to verify the target system to install, it fails saying that the license is intended for Windows 2008 Ent...
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  • Wally_Heim's avatar
    Wally_Heim
    13 years ago

    Hi Jason,

    SFW-Basic is a fully supported product.  With that in mind Technical Support does not handle the creation of license keys. However, the license key for SFW-Basic is on the download page.

    The key on the download page that ends with PP3P does decode as a "Datacenter" version.  This means that it should work on Datacenter and lower versions of the OS.

    The download page does mention that 5.1 SP2 does not need a key but I think that is for Unix/Linux versions.  As far as I know the Windows version for 5.1 SP2 still requires a license key to be entered. 

    If you are using the PP3P license key and are still having the problem, please let me know.  I don't keep datacenter servers setup but I can set one up and test the installation of SFW-Basic if you are still having problems.

    Also, please private message me with the support case ID that you were working with so that I can investigate what happened with that case.

    Thanks,

    Wally

AlanTLR's avatar
AlanTLR
Level 5
13 years ago

Jason,

  What architecture are you installing on?  Also, what is the name of the executable you are trying to download?  You should have a 631MB file named "VRTS_SF_Basic_5.1_SP2_Windows_64", if you're on a 64-bit system.

I've been able to install this on my Windows Server 2008R2 machine and I've noticed that I run into problems if I forget to right-click and click on "Run as Administrator."

 

--Alan