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So the question is how can you tell if you're VMware host has a Windows DC license? I don't think you can tell, correct? &nbsp;You would need the record of sales and the volume licensing key for that type to keep track someplace?
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So the question is how can you tell if you're VMware host has a Windows DC license? I don't think you can tell, correct?  You would need the record of sales and the volume licensing key for that type to keep track someplace?

Windows Data Center licensing on VMware host

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.