Microsoft is really trying to get customers to give up on VMWare. If you change from VMware to Hyper-V your Windows Server 2016 Datacenter licenses are for free. But as always, you need to read all the fine print.
Read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/cloud-tco
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Categories: Windows Server 2016
The Deployment Bunny 
So the big things I’m seeing are that you need to at least pay for the Software Assurance, and that you need to have a Microsoft Partner involved in the setup. Was there anything else I missed?
As far as I know, that is it. You also need to “proof” ownership for licenses