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luvias311
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Can I use single vCenter 7 license to manage 3 sites?

Relatively new to VMware here.

There are 3 sites with a VMware cluster on each site, and each has a vCenter Server 7 Standard instance installed to manage the cluster at that site. 

We have been quoted to purchase 1 vCenter standard license for renewal and would like to know if this is correct and whether we can use the license on each server or whether we need a separate license for each site?

Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

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RajeevVCP4
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VC license assigned on per instance basis, If you are using same key on all site then it can be possible,

But I think you can not do it for all site/vcenter server .

 

 

 

Rajeev Chauhan
VCIX-DCV6.5/VSAN/VXRAIL
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scott28tt
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

You need 3 vCenter licenses to run 3 separate instances.

 


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