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I have already setup the vCenter appliance in the essentials environment I was just hoping that I could manage both from a single vCenter interface. Thanks for the answer though!
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I have already setup the vCenter appliance in the essentials environment I was just hoping that I could manage both from a single vCenter interface. Thanks for the answer though!

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We have our primary VMware vSphere 5 Entereprise environment that is managed by a physical vCenter Server.<br />
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We have some older hosts, SAN, and FC switch that I am repurposing for our test and development network. I will be running vSphere Essentials Kit and this environment will be on it own SAN, FC Switch, and hosts.<br />
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My question is can I create a new Datacenter in my production vSphere vCenter Server to manage my test/dev VMware environment? It will be using different licensing then my production environment and will obviously not be a part of the same resource pool. <br />
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Thanks in advance!
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We have our primary VMware vSphere 5 Entereprise environment that is managed by a physical vCenter Server.

We have some older hosts, SAN, and FC switch that I am repurposing for our test and development network. I will be running vSphere Essentials Kit and this environment will be on it own SAN, FC Switch, and hosts.

My question is can I create a new Datacenter in my production vSphere vCenter Server to manage my test/dev VMware environment? It will be using different licensing then my production environment and will obviously not be a part of the same resource pool. 

Thanks in advance!

VMware 5.1 Datacenter Management and

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.