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They have been specifically designed for small businesses and can virtualize up to three physical servers.
#Vmware esxi 6 licensing plus
VMware vSphere 6 Essentials and VMware vSphere 6 Essentials Plus packages must be considered separately. VMware vSphere 6 Editions for Smaller Environments
#Vmware esxi 6 licensing license
The license usage for vSphere Desktop equals the total number of powered on desktop virtual machines running on the hosts that are assigned a vSphere Desktop license. VSphere Desktop is intended for VDI environments such as Horizon View.
#Vmware esxi 6 licensing upgrade
For example, if you upgrade an ESXi host from 5.x to 6.x, you need to license the host with a vSphere 6 license. If you upgrade an ESXi host to a version that starts with a different number, you must apply a new license. For example, if you upgrade a host from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5, you can use the same license for the host. If you upgrade an ESXi host to a version that starts with the same number, you do not need to replace the existing license with a new one. You cannot use the features that remained unused while the host was in evaluation mode. You cannot change the current configuration of the features that are in use. All powered on virtual machines continue to work, but you cannot power on virtual machines after they are powered off. License and Evaluation Period Expiryįor ESXi hosts, license or evaluation period expiry leads to disconnection from vCenter Server. To explore the entire set of features that are available for the host, you can set it back to evaluation mode, and use it for the remaining evaluation period.įor example, if you use an ESXi host in evaluation mode for 20 days and then assign a vSphere Standard license to the host and then set the host back to evaluation mode, you can explore the entire set of features that are available for the host for the remaining evaluation period of 40 days. If you assign a license to an ESXi host before its evaluation period expires, the time available in the evaluation period is decreased by the time already used. An evaluation mode license provides the set of features that equals the highest vSphere product edition. Evaluation mode licenses expire after 60 days.
#Vmware esxi 6 licensing install
When you install ESXi, its default license is evaluation mode. You can assign a vSphere license for 10 CPUs to any of the following combinations of hosts:ĭual-core and quad-core CPUs, such as Intel CPUs that combine two or four independent CPUs on a single chip, count as one CPU.
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You can assign and reassign the CPU capacity of a vSphere license to any combination of ESXi hosts. If you attempt to assign a license that has insufficient capacity or does not support the features that the host uses, the license assignment fails. For example, if the host is associated with a vSphere Distributed Switch, the license that you assign must support the vSphere Distributed Switch feature.
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The license must support all the features that the host uses.For example, to license two ESXi hosts that have four CPUs each, you need to assign a vSphere license with a minimum capacity of 8 CPUs to the hosts. The license must have sufficient CPU capacity to license all physical CPUs on the host.To license an ESXi host, you must assign it a vSphere license that meets the following prerequisites: vSphere Desktop that is intended for VDI environments is licensed on per virtual machine basis. When you assign a vSphere license to a host, the amount of CPU capacity that is consumed is equal to the number of physical CPUs in the host. Each vSphere license has a certain CPU capacity that you can use to license multiple physical CPUs on ESXi hosts. ESXi hosts are licensed with vSphere licenses.