How do you assign vSphere licenses to ESXi Hosts?

Uwe Wirtz asked a question.

September 1, 2017 at 7:00 AM

When assigning vSphere licenses to ESXi hosts Snow shows the OS itself as "not covered". Even though ESXi Hosts should be covered by vSphere licenses (Licensing for ESXi Hosts).

Do I have to add an additional "virtual" ESXi License to cover the OS?

Best regards,

Uwe

Uwe Wirtz
9 years ago
no ideas?
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alexander_bu
9 years ago
Hi Uwe, my first guess would be to set the license form within the ESX application to "no license required" since it comes with the vSphere automatically, as you said. If that's no solution for you, vSphere comes with a processor metric. So if you want to connect your vSphere licenses with the ESX application you should set the application to "based on installations" and the license object to "number of processors". However since there is no vSphere application (I guess) you probably need to set the application of the license object to ESX any way. Then you should create a license for each host and allocate the devices individually. Alternatively you could create a Cluster/Processor license for your vSphere clusters. Best, Alex
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