NSX-T licensing for additional ESXi hosts (Scale-up existing cluster)

[chmahe83]

Hi,

There is NSX-T environment in place with the below mentioned licensing model.

License Type: NSX-T advance 

Quantity: 18

License based: CPU

Existing cluster has 7 hosts. We are planning to adding additional 5 ESXi hosts into cluster and are expected to be part of existing NSX-T fabric. Does it require additional NSX-T licensing procurement ?

[p0wertje]

Hi,

You can export the current license usage.
My test setup has 4 hosts and in the usage it is 8 cpu.
When translating that to you, assuming you have 2 cpu per host, you do not have enough license to add the hosts.
Try to export the license usage:

Or via api

GET https://<nsxmanager>/api/v1/licenses/licenses-usage

{

    "feature_usage_info": [

        {

            "capacity_usage": [

                {

                    "capacity_type": "VM",

                    "usage_count": 22

                },

                {

                    "capacity_type": "CPU",

                    "usage_count": 8

                },

                {

                    "capacity_type": "vCPU",

                    "usage_count": 0

                },

                {

                    "capacity_type": "USER",

                    "usage_count": 22

                },

                {

                    "capacity_type": "CORE",

                    "usage_count": 176

                }

            ],

            "feature": "Switching & Routing"

        },

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