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Can Vcenter and VCSA Appliance be put on the same VM? I do not want to use another license for the vCSA Appliance.

I want to use the vCSA Appliance to do updates and patches on my Vcenter. My vCenter (Version 6.7) is currently a WIndows 2012 Server. I installed vCSA on the vCenter server and it created another VM which works great but it is asking for an additional license and made it a trial version. Is there a way to combine VCSA and Vcemter into one VM so I don;t need to use another license. I would even convert my Vcemter to Linux if it would work.
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arnold

8/22/2022 - Mon
Seth Simmons

what are you trying to accomplish?
you can migrate from the windows vm to the appliance (which you should do anyway since the windows server is deprecated)

I would even convert my Vcemter to Linux if it would work.
that's what I would expect you to do...you can migrate from windows to the appliance
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arnold

After creating the VM, it provides a path as Andrew points out that this is a migration.at which point it will connect to your existing vCenter and pull the data info.
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