I have an existing Vcenter6 essentials environment with all licenses used. I purchased a new server with embedded ESXI 7 that I need to get a license for. I also want to be able to managed the new ESXI V7 host and and one of the old ESXI V6 hosts in a new Vcenter. I worked with my reseller and was told if I purchased a V8 license it would be good for any lower version host. I do not want to upgrade my existing V6 keys to a higher version for fear the hosts would quit working unless I upgraded ESXI on all of them, which I don't want to do right away and may not be able to do on some due to hardware compatibility.
I tried to assign the V8 essentials license I purchased to my V7 ESXI host and I get "Please enter a valid license" and a red X.
If I try to connect an existing standalone ESXI V6 host (not connected to any Vcenter) to my new Vcenter8, I get a warning that the existing V6 license will be part of two Vcenters and non compliant. Of course trying to change the license on that ESXIV6 host to a ESXI V8 license gives me the same error that I get on the V7 host.
Can I not due what I am trying to do despite the fact hat the reseller verified with Vmware that it would work? If I upgrade my V6 licenses to V8 does it invalidate the existing V6 licenses and put me in upgrade or die situation?
I thought I laid out the scenario clearly with the reseller before purchase and I felt comfortable I would be ok. But nothing is working as I had hoped it would.
Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong or what my path forwards needs to be?
Thank you.
