Upgrade ESXi 5.5 Enterprise hosts to 6.5

[mahesh14584]

Hi There,

We are planning to upgrade our ESXi hosts (15) currently running on vSphere 5.5 with Enterprise license to vSphere 6.5 update1.

As we are aware, Enterprise license model is discontinued and Standard, Enterprise Plus and Enterprise Plus with vSOM are available in 6.x, and, existing active SnS Enterprise licenses are supported till 2020.

We do not want to move to to Enterprise Plus license model at this time, so, Is it possible to upgrade 5.5 Enterprise license to its equivalent license type in 6.5?

Thanks

Mahe

[daphnissov]

No, you will not be able to upgrade that license to Enterprise. You must either downgrade to Standard and forfeit those features, or upgrade to Enterprise Plus.

[bhards4]

Yes, that's correct. Same old licence will not be promoted to 6.5 , either  you have to choose  licence as per 6.4 guidelines or use standard or Enterprise plus to after upgrade.