VMware vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus Full License Product Key

VMware vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus — Full License

VMware vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus is the highest-tier edition of VMware’s industry-leading server virtualisation platform for the vSphere 6.x release family. It includes every feature of the Essentials Plus and Standard tiers, plus advanced capabilities such as Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vSphere Fault Tolerance, Virtual SAN (VSAN), and NSX networking integration. It is designed for large enterprises, service providers, and data centres that require maximum VM density and availability.

What’s Included — Enterprise Plus vs Lower Editions

• vMotion & Storage vMotion — live migration of running VMs and their disks with zero downtime
• Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) — automatic load balancing across hosts in a cluster
• High Availability (HA) — automatic VM restart on host failure
• Fault Tolerance (FT) — continuous availability with a synchronised shadow VM
• Virtual SAN (VSAN) — hyper-converged storage using local disks across hosts
• Distributed Switch (vDS) — centralised network management across all hosts
• Storage DRS (SDRS) — automatic storage load balancing
• NSX-V support — micro-segmentation and software-defined networking
• Auto Deploy — stateless host provisioning via PXE boot
• Profile-Driven Storage — VM storage policy management

vSphere 6.x Release Family

This license covers the vSphere 6.x product line, which includes:

• vSphere 6.0
• vSphere 6.5
• vSphere 6.7

vSphere 6.7 is the recommended version within the 6.x family, offering the best performance and the most complete HTML5-based vSphere Client before the transition to vSphere 7.

System Requirements (per host)

• CPU: 64-bit x86 processor with hardware virtualisation support (Intel VT-x or AMD-V)
• RAM: 4 GB minimum — 32 GB+ recommended for production workloads
• Storage: 1 GB for ESXi boot (USB, SD, or local disk); shared storage recommended for HA/DRS
• Network: 1 GbE minimum — 10 GbE recommended for vMotion and VSAN traffic
• Management: vCenter Server required to use DRS, HA, FT, and other cluster-level features

How to Apply Your vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus License

1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client or vSphere Client
2. Navigate to Administration > Licensing
3. Click Add New Licenses and enter your Enterprise Plus key
4. Assign the license to the target ESXi host or vCenter instance
5. Verify the assigned features match the Enterprise Plus tier in the license summary

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this license include vCenter Server?
No. vSphere host licenses and vCenter Server licenses are sold separately by VMware. This key licenses one ESXi host.

Can I use this key on multiple hosts?
One key licenses one physical host. For multiple hosts, you need one Enterprise Plus key per host (or a per-CPU key depending on your packaging).

Is vSphere 6 still supported by VMware?
VMware ended general support for vSphere 6.0 in March 2020, vSphere 6.5 in October 2022, and vSphere 6.7 in October 2022. The license remains valid and functional — this is relevant for organisations on extended support contracts or internal isolated environments.

Is this a perpetual license?
Yes. vSphere perpetual licenses do not expire. However, SnS (support and subscription) renewal is separate and needed to receive updates and VMware support.