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?