Another option may be to try phone activation
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beyond this you may need to get in touch with the seller's trained microsoft licensing specialist.
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Good afternoon all,
I am running ESXi 7.0.2 on my Servers as Hypervisor. I just purchased a license for Datacenter 2022, which should have unlimited VM activations, to upgrade all my servers. The first VM activated fine, but now when I try to activate a second VM, it is giving me an Error 1168, stating the license is already in use. Does it detect ESXi VMs as physical hosts? Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Another option may be to try phone activation
slui 4
beyond this you may need to get in touch with the seller's trained microsoft licensing specialist.
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and Accept as answer
if the reply is helpful--
Ok, when you use evaluation media you'll need to convert it. Assuming you are using a retail channel product key you can
Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerDataCenter /ProductKey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx /AcceptEula
reboot
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Does it detect ESXi VMs as physical hosts
No, it would not. AVMA can only be used when the host runs Windows Server DataCenter. To activate a DataCenter guest just use the same host product key for activation.
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What operating system was installed? What installation media was used?
Not sure what this means. What channel is the product key? (OEM, retail, volume)