Hyper-V 2022 and Virtual Machines licensing

Question

Hello good Morning.

I would appreciate if you can clarify me about the licensing for Hyper-V 2022 and its VMs.

In the licensing portal I can see that I have 45 MAK activations for Servers 2016, 2019 and 2022 in Datacenter and Standard versions.

The idea is to be able to use these licenses for a new Hyper-V farm in 2022, I understand that the Datacenter licenses will be used for physical hypervisors.

Regarding the VMs that will later be hosted, what type of license is used for them, in which Standard version, Datacenter should they be installed? Is it necessary to have AVMA?

When it indicates that I have 0/45 standard and 0/45 Datacenter, what does it mean exactly?

I have read in other forums problems with MAK licenses being necessary other VUL that I do not see in the portal. In this proposed setting would this affect in any way?

Thank you very much for the help.

Answer 1

Hi @FAR ,

Please note that these are technical forums, and is not meant for providing legal advice on licensing. licensing questions are best asked directly to a trained Microsoft licensing specialist.

You can contact Microsoft directly and discuss your licensing needs - www.microsoft.com/licensing

You may also contact the VLSC support over here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/contact-us

You'll also find some general licensing information here:

• Licensing Microsoft server products for use in virtual environments
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/pricing
• Windows Server 2019 Licensing Datasheet
• Windows Server 2016 Licensing Datasheet

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