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Server 2022 Datacenter Activation in Scale/Proxmox/KVM
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.
The problem is a DataCenter host provides for an unlimited number of virtual machines. Reusing the DataCenter product key over and over on the vmware hypervisor guests is going to eventually trigger a "product key in use" error, then the other problem of being able to talk to anyone to raise the limit will be next to impossible to do. Better option may be to install a DataCenter host and move on.
Ok, well back to original it seems you'll need to downgrade the 2022 DataCenter keys to 2019 DataCenter, then activate the guests (hope they're running DataCenter edition?) using these downgrade keys. You didn't say how many on each host but if its more than a half dozen or so you may run into problems.
- I would love to just use Hyper-V but my predecessor fast tracked a Scale Computing solution with our MSP on his way out. I inherited a $60k (pre OS licensing) problem that I am trying to make the best of. This is a large mistake that will be difficult for a company of our size to swallow.
What is really funny is our MSP was going to try and license this 3 node cluster with a single, 16 core Datacenter license, and that the solution was approved/recommended by a MS rep.