vSphere 5 Enterprise license with vCenter 5 Standard edition
Quick question guys
can i add a vSphere 5 enterprise (or even Plus) license to a couple of new hosts (especially need FT and DRS) in conjunction with vSphere standard licences already in use (and want to keep) under a vCenter 5 Standard edition?
I don't see an issue with running differently licensed hosts on a vCenter Server instance. Due to the different features you will need to place them in separate clusters though. Regarding the vRAM, from how I understand it vRAM is pooled by license type, so you will end up with two pools.
also how will this affect vRAM pooling? will it just add 64Gb or 96Gb per processor to the pool? or downgrade it to the other standard 32Gb licenses i already have???
I don't see an issue with running differently licensed hosts on a vCenter Server instance. Due to the different features you will need to place them in separate clusters though. Regarding the vRAM, from how I understand it vRAM is pooled by license type, so you will end up with two pools.
just a quick note: vCenter Standard is already the biggest vCenter license available, so no need to to worry when adding vSphere Enterprise(+) licensed hosts.
The other questions were already answered by Andrè.
