Hi All,
I hope someone can help me.
Current situation:
3 vsphere 6.5 nodes + 1 vCenter 6.5 correctly licensed and in production
we have purchased 3 new nodes that will replace the 3 old nodes, we will also replace the vCenter. at the same time we will install version 7 of vsphere and vcenter.
My questions/clarifications are these:
Thank you very much for your availability and I apologise for the questions but before creating a mess in a production environment I wanted some confirmation from someone who knows more about licensing than I do.
And now I see you found the vSphere area and created a duplicate post anyway.
Yes sorry but at I can't found the vsphere section. now is ok. sorry for mistake
VMware's EULA allows you to only use the licensed capacity once. There may not be a technical issue with upgrading the licenses while the old systems are still in use, but this will violate the EULA.
For upgrades or a refresh as in your case, the proper way to do this, is to install the new environment and leave it running in evaluation mode (which is 60 days), which should give you plenty of time to do the migration. Once the old vCenter Server and hosts are gone, upgrade the license keys, and assign them to the new systems.
André
Tks Andrè for your reply, I've thought the same way, but I need more then 60 days for complete migration.
I must migrate vm in a lot of steps unfortunately.
anyway Tks for your answer