Question on Licensing Servers of Different ESXI Version

[veritas7]

Hi,

I understand that a Vpshere Essentials Kit supports up to 3 physical servers, however what if my servers are of different ESXI version?

I have one running 7.0, and another 6.5 due to older hardware.

Do I need to purchase separate licenses, or will one license cover both servers? Would the key work for both versions concurrently?

Thanks.

[stadi13]

You can run both ESX host in vCenter with diffrent keys. One for vSphere 6 and one for vSphere 7. When you have an active support agreement, you can upgrade your license keys to vSphere 7 and add the new key to vCenter.

The limitation for vSphere Essentials Kit is, that you cannot have more than three esx hosts (version does not matter) and 6 cpus in one vCenter.

Please mark as resolved, when your question is answered.

Daniel