What management tools am I licensed for?

[pksupport]

I have two identical license keys with the following licensed features. Currently, I am using two instances of the VI Cient to manage these hosts. According to the licensed features, should I also have access to VCenter? I can't download it, it indicates I don't have an applicaple product registration.

I'd like to be able to manage both hosts and use VMotion (and have access to these feautres) from one interface.

Product: vSphere 4 Standard Licensed for 2 physical CPUs (1-6 cores per CPU)

Expires: Never

Product Features:
    Up to 256 GB of memory
    Up to 4-way virtual SMP
    vCenter agent for ESX Server
    vStorage APIs
    VMsafe
    dvFilter
    VMware HA
    vMotion

Thanks!

PK

[DSTAVERT · Accepted solution]

You have the ability to manage the Hosts using vCenter (the vCenter Agent) but you also need to purchase vCenter separately. For two hosts you can use the Foundation license.

[DSTAVERT]

http://store.vmware.com/store/vmware/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.126844900

[DSTAVERT]

Did you purchase a package or just the individual licenses? You might want to consider one of the Essentials or Acceleration Kits which also include vCenter.

The Essentials kits

http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/vsphere_smbpurchaseoptions.html

Acceleration Kits

http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/vsphere_accel_purchaseoptions.html

[pksupport]

Thanks. We purchased the individual licenses separately. I might go ahead and upgrade to 5. I understand I'll get access to everything if I do this before September 1st.

Patrick