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  • 1.  Migrate Vcenter Essential Plus to Enterprise

    Posted May 27, 2022 03:28 PM

    Hello, I have  3 Vsphare Essential Plus 7 licence (6 CPU), I want to consolidade this licences in one vcenter only. What´s version  i need to this?  Standar? Enterprise? Enterprise Plus?

    Thks a Lot.

    Carlos



  • 2.  RE: Migrate Vcenter Essential Plus to Enterprise

    Posted May 28, 2022 07:44 AM

    Well....   there are 2 upgrade SKUs available

    1. EssPlus -> Accel.Kit Std.
    2. EssPlus -> Accel.Kit Enterprise+

    Each contains a vCenter Std.(unlimited Hosts) and 6x1 CPU Lics of vSphere ESXi Std. or Enterprise+.

    So you should calculate uprade one of your existing EssPlus bundles and adding the needed single Sphere ESXi licenses to it. I have my doubt that upgrading all 3 to a Accel.Kit because you always gets a vCenter with and paying SnS for 3 of them might be a overkill unless you need different vCenters and like to link them together.

    Note: You need to buy at minimum 2 add. month of SnS but i highly suggest to get 1Y or better 3Ys. Your existing SnS of the EssPlus bundles will be converted and combined.

    The vSphere Enterprise edition dropped a loooooooong time ago and you cant buy it any more. Also in a future vSphere release you cant use the old enterprise licenses any more.

    Regards,
    Joerg

     



  • 3.  RE: Migrate Vcenter Essential Plus to Enterprise

    Posted May 28, 2022 08:02 AM

    Hello,

    I guess your best choice is vCenter Std, for Essentials Plus, you won't need Enterprise edition

    BR



  • 4.  RE: Migrate Vcenter Essential Plus to Enterprise

    Posted May 28, 2022 11:33 AM

     

    >>> ...  vCenter Std, for Essentials Plus ...

    AFAIK that's not a valid option.

    André



  • 5.  RE: Migrate Vcenter Essential Plus to Enterprise

    Posted May 29, 2022 06:07 AM

    Thats for sure not a valid option.

    Any given "Essenentials" only works together with other Essentials parts and not Non-Essentials. The hosts will disconnect after a short period of time from the wrong vCenter.

    Regards,
    Joerg