Adding sockets to Essentials and managing two vCenters

[bdoe]

Currently we have Veeam under an Essentials license with four sockets. This was enough to handle our VMware Essentials license, which was managing three hosts with four sockets (two single-socket systems and a dual). I've recently added a new host with one socket occupied, and created a new vCenter under a new VMware Essentials license. I also had two old hosts running ESXi free that I added to this vCenter for management only. I'm planning to max out my Veeam Essentials license in order to back up the new host, but I wanted to check on how to approach this. The old hosts don't matter in any way, but would adding the new vCenter to Veeam make Veeam think I'm wanting to manage nine sockets? Or does the socket count in Veeam apply only to hosts I set up jobs for? I would be using two jobs for the new host, one to back up all machines on it except a large file server, the other for the file server.

[foggy]

License is applied to the host when you start actually backing up VMs residing on it.

[bdoe]

Well, that's an easy answer. Thanks!