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The link you provided appears to answer your question.<br />
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AVMA requires a Microsoft Virtualization Server running Windows Server 2019 Datacenter, Windows Server 2016 Datacenter, or Windows Server 2012 R2. 
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Have you looked at Active Directory Based Activation?
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The link you provided appears to answer your question.



> AVMA requires a Microsoft Virtualization Server running Windows Server 2019 Datacenter, Windows Server 2016 Datacenter, or Windows Server 2012 R2.


Have you looked at Active Directory Based Activation?

The More I know, the more I don't know

David Johnson, CD

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Active Directory Based Activation only replaces KMS 

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I know that in Windows Server 2016/2019 with the Hyper-V role you can activate with Automatic VM Activation (AVMA)<br />
<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started-19/vm-activation-19" rel="ugc">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started-19/vm-activation-19</a><br />
I can't see a way of doing it with ESXI or the Standalone Hyper-V Server product. <br />
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Has anyone tested this and achieved success in those 2 aforementioned scenarios? Or is it not possible
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I know that in Windows Server 2016/2019 with the Hyper-V role you can activate with Automatic VM Activation (AVMA)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started-19/vm-activation-19
I can't see a way of doing it with ESXI or the Standalone Hyper-V Server product. 

Has anyone tested this and achieved success in those 2 aforementioned scenarios? Or is it not possible

Automatic VM Activation

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.

Windows OS

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.

Hyper-V

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.