Different VSphere licenses into same VCenter

[ITCov]

Hi there,

We do have a vcenter with 2 datacenters and some hosts inside.

Right now we are using for the hosts vsphere 6 Enterprise plus, but I would like to know if possible to have only for 1 datacenter a standard license and for the other datacenter keep the enterprise.

So right now :

VCenter

Datacenter1

Host 1 (vsphere 6 Enterprise)

Host 2 (vsphere 6 Enterprise)

Datacenter2

Host 1 (vsphere 6 Enterprise Plus)

Host 2 (vsphere 6 Enterprise Plus)

Host 3 (vsphere 6 Enterprise Plus)

What I want:

VCenter (standar license)

Datacenter1

Host 1 (vsphere standard )

Host 2 (vsphere standard )

Datacenter2

Host 1 (vsphere 6 Enterprise Plus)

Host 2 (vsphere 6 Enterprise Plus)

Host 3 (vsphere 6 Enterprise Plus)

Do you think it's possible to do this? maybe Vcenter only allows host inside with the same license.

Thanks.

[NicolasAlauzet]

Hey,

Yes, you can have multiple and different licenses for the ESXi inside the same vCenter.

Remember that its licensed per socket at a host level (vCenter is a dedicated license) just make sure you build the clusters with the same lic otherwise you will have differences witht he capabilities of each host.

[scott28tt]

Moderator: Thread moved to the vSphere area.

[IRIX201110141]

This is technically and legally not a problem and will exactly working as you would like to see.

Regards,
Joerg