How to license virtual machines running Windows 2019 Standard edition with Datacenter license?

Question

The client is running Nutanix AHV and has Lenovo Windows 2019 Datacenter ROK licenses for every host for the virtual machines.

Questions : How do we activate the Windows 2019 Standard OS running in these virtual machines using the Datacenter activation keys?

Answer 1

Hello @Andrew Ang

Following the current physical core licensing for Windows Server 2019, you can fully activate all your virtual machines with AVMA: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/automatic-vm-activation

Hope this helps with your query,

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Answer 2

The client is running Nutanix AHV and not Hyper-V. Will this solution still works?

Answer 3

client is running Nutanix AHV

AVMA only works when the host is DataCenter Hyper-v, in your case 2019 Standard guests are not going to work. Without a 2019 DataCenter host the server is limited to 2019 DataCenter guests only. Just use the DataCenter product key to activate the 2019 DataCenter guests.

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