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davidjerwood
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VC Cluster License Issue

I currently have a ESX Cluster of 2 X 4 CPU hosts. I am about to replace these hosts with 4 X 2 CPU hosts. I would really like to add 1 new host to the cluster now, and vmotion the machines off an old host and then decom it. But I only have 8 cpu license. Which means I need to shutdown a host reattach the storage on the new host and cold migrate.

Does anyone know how I can vmotion them, maybe using a temp vmotion license or something?

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weinstein5
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maybe bring up your esx host and vc in evaluation mode - that should give you enough licenses to do what you need -

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davidjerwood
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My VC is an existing VC so is licensed ??

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