SQL Data Generator Licensing Issue on Azure VM
Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2019 18:54
I have SQL Data Generator installed and licensed on a Windows Server 2016 Virtual Machine in Azure that's used as a shared development environment. Every night, this VM is shut down and "deallocated" in Azure to save costs while not in use. When the VM is started again in the morning, there's a new "Hardware ID" and SQL Data Generator acts as if it hasn't been activated yet. This is an issue as we have data generation run daily via the command line in an automated process, and it ends up failing due to to new Hardware ID invalidating the license.
Has anyone experienced something like this yet? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Has anyone experienced something like this yet? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.