We bought licensing for 3 hosts -- 6 physical CPUs total -- prior to 5.x release. We built 2 hosts and installed a vSphere 4 Essentials license on each.
We just got a new, 3rd host, after 5.x came out. I installed VMware Essentials 5.1 on it, but need a license. The vSphere 4 Essentials license fails with version error. I figure all I need to do is just click upgrade in my.vwmare.com console, and this will make it work with this new, 5.1 install?
I need to be able to run our existing 4.x installs along with this 5.1 install for a while.
Will this in any way cause a problem?
My hosts are:
1 VMware Essentials 4.0 -- working license.
1 VMware Essentials 4.1 Update 1 -- working license.
1 VMware Essentials 5.1 -- need a working license (which we own, just need to know best/how to apply it).
I think I know the answer to this one but wanted to double check.