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  • 1.  VMware Encryption

    Posted Apr 07, 2023 01:57 PM

    Hello everyone,

    I need to encrypt my VMware infrastructure that sits on a 3 node host cluster running multiple VMs.

    The VMware license on my hosts is vSphere 7 Essential Plus

    The VMware license on my vCenter Server is vCenter Server 7 Essentials

    In order to use VM encryption, it’s required to upgrade the VMware licenses on our 3 hosts from Essentials Plus to Enterprise Plus.

    I already have an existing vSphere 7 Enterprise Plus license.

    Before assigning the existing Enterprise plus license to our 3 hosts, do I need to upgrade the license on the VCenter server from Essentials to Enterprise Plus?

    Do the licenses have to match and be Enterprise Plus on both VCenter Server and hots?

    I tried to assign the existing Enterprise license to one of our hosts and received the error below:

    The host license edition is not compatible with the vCenter Server license edition

    Can you guys point me in the right direction?