Limitations on running ESXi essentials kit on multiple servers

[agilecloud]

Hi folks,

With the vmware essentials kit price-points listed here: VMware Official Online Store Online Store - VMware vSphere Essentials Kit is there a limitation on number of servers we can run on this license. For eg, can I keep purchasing new instance of this license per 3 servers that I add to my datacenter and there won't be any restrictions around how many servers I can use?

[john23]

Hope you have seen this:

This kit includes 6 CPU licenses of vSphere Essentials (for 3 servers with up to 2 processors each) and 1 license for vCenter Server Essentials.

The vSphere Essentials Kit consists of the following:

• vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)
• vCenter Server Essentials
• vCenter Operations Manager Foundation

-A

[aravinds3107 · Accepted solution]

The limitation is with vCenter Server Essentials (which is included in the kit) is that we can manage only 3 hosts.

If you want to manage more that 3 host under same vCenter then you have to go for vCenter Standard and separate vSphere instance

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[agilecloud]

Ah, that's what I was looking for. Thanks.

[fabioenne]

Hi

having purchased the essential kit license,

am I required to handle the server with vcenter?

Or can I not even use it, and handle it all with Vpshere WebClient?