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Windows 2019 Standard edition guest OS licensing on AHV

@CESC  Your MS licensing will be completely agnostic to Nutanix and must be dealt with separately. Even if you’re running a lab with Nutanix CE you may still be required to hold MS licensing for Windows VMs. I highly recommend you talk to your MS licensing VAR to get full clarification and ensure you’re operating within your licensing contracts.  If you’re using trial / evaluation Windows Server editions then you should be just fine as long as you work withing the time limits those come with.  If you’re an MSDN license holder then you might be OK if you’re using MSDN keys for your windows installs - there are limitations to how MSDN instances are used so again you’ll need to review with MS or a licensing VAR to ensure compliance. I think that with MSDN - if you build a Windows MSDN VM that any user who uses that VM would need to hold their own MSDN developer license, ie one developer can’t ‘own’ all the Windows server to get them all legit under one license. I might be way off here so

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