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Server 2022 Datacenter Activation in Scale/Proxmox/KVM
- Jul 13, 2022
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.
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.
- JCottrillJul 13, 2022Copper Contributor
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.
- Dave PatrickJul 13, 2022MVP
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- JCottrillJul 13, 2022Copper ContributorThanks again for the sanity check.
- Dave PatrickJul 13, 2022MVP
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.