Can I run a 2016 VM on a Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Hyper-V Host with S/A without licensing issues?

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We have a 3 node Hyper-V Failover Cluster with each node running Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter.

We have Software Assurance on all three hosts.

From a technical perspective, we can certainly run a VM running Server 2016 Datacenter as a Guest OS on this cluster, but what about licensing?

As I understand it, since we have Software Assurance, we therefore have New Version Rights and the ability to upgrade all Cluster hosts to 2016 Datacenter, we just haven't. So is the Software Assurance ability to upgrade to 2016 Datacenter on the hosts currently running 2012 R2 Datacenter enough to cover the 2016 Datacenter license on the VM?

I do understand the core versus processor change, and I do understand some of the issues around that.

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