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Server 2022 Datacenter Activation in Scale/Proxmox/KVM
I have three retail Server 2022 Datacenter product activation keys and am wondering how to activate the resulting VMs in a Scale Computing HC3 environment with three hosts. The VMs are running Server 2019 due to current compatibility and support issues. AVMA keys will not work because this is not a Hyper-V environment. I have found a couple posting around the web with no definitive answers. I appreciate any advice that can be provided and am having a hard time tracking down a MS support contact for this.
You can easily activate by doing
slmgr /ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
slmgr /ato
but you'll need to come up with a valid product key for activation. The Server 2022 DataCenter license will be no help unless you can get hold of a downgrade product key from seller.
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If you don't run DataCenter for the host then that's correct you cannot use AVMA keys plus this limits you to only standing up 2022 DataCenter guest virtual machines. Simply use the same host product key to activate guests.
Thanks, Dave Patrick. Do you know if it is possible to activate Server 2019 Datacenter VMs using slui -4? I understand this would be a little painful given the manual nature of this, but I want to make sure I understand all of my options. Server 2022 isn't formally supported by the Scale guest tools yet so I have a tiny bit of hesitation going all-in on 2022.
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