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KingRave
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Changing License Key?

I just renewed my license and upgraded it from Essentials to Essentials Plus.  My old servers are still running 5.5 and I'm looking to upgrade them to 6.5.  My old licenses didn't come with VMotion which would be very handy to complete this process.  Is there a way to install my new license on the old servers so I can move the MV's off and upgrade the server?

As information: I have two ESX servers running 5.5 and a third which is running 6.5 with vCenter 6.5.

Thanks in advance.

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You can downgrade the new Essentials Plus CPU licenses (or only some of them) to v5 in your My VMware portal, and upgrade them again to v6 once you need them.

André

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