Windows 10 retail licensing

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Brabanti

I have a question regarding windows 10 retail licensing. We have a software package that requires us to run its master copy on a windows 10 machine, instead of server 2016. For uptime reasons we want it to run as a single virtual machine on our virtualized vSphere environment with vMotion enabled. The only time there will be anybody logged on to this machine is to apply updates or troubleshoot. Do we need a retail license for every physical host it might run on (because of vMotion), or is it suffice to buy one license, since it is a single VM with only a single simultanious user working on it? To me, the EULA article 2 leaves me with a bit ambiguity, and I want to make sure we do not run in licensing problems.

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