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David_Y
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Vcenter essentials -vs- Vcenter standard license question

We currently have a couple of Vcenter Standard environments for our production vmware clusters.  We recently bought a couple of Essentials licenses (hosts and vcenter).  I'm try to avoid server sprawl where I can and would rather manage the ESXi essentials host(s) using our already built Vcenter Standard.  However, I get an error when I license the host from eval to it's Essential license.

The Essentials host is a slightly newer version than the current cluster.  Is this error because I need to patch up my existing vcenter?  I'm not looking to gain vmotion or another feature I'm not entitled to.  Just wait to create a separate datacenter mainly for permissions and a single pain of glass.  Seems crazy I can't simply manage a host with a lesser license.

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