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VMware vSphere Essentials licenses are essentially, Starter Packs, you cannot add more than 3 Hosts, Link vCenter Servers, or add any upgrades.<br />
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BUT, if you discuss with your VMware Partner, they could cut you a deal, we would!<br />
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If you created a new vCenter Server, you would be able to add 3 Host Servers to it, if you had a VMware vSphere Essentials License.<br />
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but you cannot link Essentials vCenter Servers together.
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VMware vSphere Essentials licenses are essentially, Starter Packs, you cannot add more than 3 Hosts, Link vCenter Servers, or add any upgrades.

BUT, if you discuss with your VMware Partner, they could cut you a deal, we would!

If you created a new vCenter Server, you would be able to add 3 Host Servers to it, if you had a VMware vSphere Essentials License.

but you cannot link Essentials vCenter Servers together.

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I am currently limited to 3 host servers in my vCenter server due to the Essentials license. &nbsp;If I had another vCenter license would I be able to add 3 more host servers or would I need to create another vCenter server and add the new servers there?
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I am currently limited to 3 host servers in my vCenter server due to the Essentials license.  If I had another vCenter license would I be able to add 3 more host servers or would I need to create another vCenter server and add the new servers there?

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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.