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VMware Essentials Plus

We have a old version of ESX (4.1)

We are looking at VMware Essentials Plus as we are small 2 hosts but had some questions:

  1. Is their no vCPU limits on that can be assigned to a VM. (as we are limited for 4 vCPUs for a VM on 4.1)
  2. I see it has vMotion but does it have vMotion Storage in the sense of could you power off a VM and move its datastore to another LUN ?

Thank you in advance.

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You cannot assign more vCPUs as logical CPUs exists in the Host.  So this is the first limit. But for sure you can create and start multiple VM with max. vCPU (doesnt perform very well but for sure no license constrained).

Yes you can perform a cold Migration from one Datastore to another one and also change the Host during the migration.

But all would also be possible with the cheap vSphere Essentials (the non Plus) version.  So which feature do you need from Ess+?  Keep in mind that only Ess+ comes with Support.

Question: Do you have a shared storage for the VMs? If so than HA and vMotion is the reason to go for Ess+.

Edit: As you mentioned vSphere 4.1 than there was a max 8 vCPU per VM technical limit in place. This version is 10 years old. Are your hosts in the same age you should consider to upgrade your HW also. Otherwise you have to specify the vSphere version because of there years different limitations exists... but increased with every version.

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You cannot assign more vCPUs as logical CPUs exists in the Host.  So this is the first limit. But for sure you can create and start multiple VM with max. vCPU (doesnt perform very well but for sure no license constrained).

Yes you can perform a cold Migration from one Datastore to another one and also change the Host during the migration.

But all would also be possible with the cheap vSphere Essentials (the non Plus) version.  So which feature do you need from Ess+?  Keep in mind that only Ess+ comes with Support.

Question: Do you have a shared storage for the VMs? If so than HA and vMotion is the reason to go for Ess+.

Edit: As you mentioned vSphere 4.1 than there was a max 8 vCPU per VM technical limit in place. This version is 10 years old. Are your hosts in the same age you should consider to upgrade your HW also. Otherwise you have to specify the vSphere version because of there years different limitations exists... but increased with every version.

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Joerg

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Yeah have shared storage we are going with Ess+ for HA and vMotion

Thank you so much for the reply.

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