In case you were wondering, you need to type the dashes too. The next screen you see will tell you to name your license. Now, since we have entered our vSphere licenses into vCenter, we just need to assign the license to vCenter.
Click the Assets tab, and vCenter will be selected by default. If you needed to assign a license to an ESXi host, you would do it the same exact way, just selecting Hosts on the Assets tab. Click the Assign License button. As you can see, our vCenter server license is expired. As you can see, our vCenter license is already selected for us, even though I had several other types of licenses in the system, such as ESXi licenses.
You can also add licenses to other vSphere products from this same screen. Click OK. Now you are ready to go back to whatever you were doing before you realized your vCenter license was expired. Remember, this process will also work for your ESXi hosts in case those licenses have expired too. If you want to learn more about the newest vSphere host client for accessing hosts directly based on HTML5, be sure to look at my favorite feature of it. VMware vSphere VMware vCenter Server View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ».
Popular Topics in VMware. Which of the following retains the information it's storing when the system power is turned off? Submit ». Thai Pepper. JasonValentine This person is a verified professional. VMware expert. They should be able to answer any licensing questions you might have and help you understand the right choice for your environment, Jason.
Ghost Chili. The world comes to an end , plagues , famine etc. No as per what the guys have said. I am guessing this is budget time and you are being questioned on the costs of VMWare licensing and why do we pay it? As long as there isn't a power outage, things run fine. But they become completely unmanageable. What product? VMWare is a company. Jim Peters This person is a verified professional. Mark92 Dec 3, at UTC.
Some food for thought from an alternative aspect. Good luck! JasonValentine Cayenne. You may want to confirm as most VMware licenses do not expire at least not for 5. Emeianoite This person is a verified professional. Before we updated to 6. Then, you assign it to an asset, in this case vCenter itself. I am sure you have seen this screen before, but look what happened when I tried to copy and paste my complete vCenter license key in! It did not make it. This can be frustrating since if you forgot to put your key in, chances are things are not working in your environment very well at all at the moment.
Take a deep breath. Do you know how I got to the screen to enter the vCenter license? Now, back to your vCenter server license key. I can only see the first five characters I pasted in, and I could not add the license key to vCenter. If you see this issue, do not panic. There is still a way to get that key into vCenter. Why bother you ask?
Well, once the vCenter Server license has expired you will be able to do much. Say goodbye to adding hosts to your inventory. If your ESXi host licenses are also expired, then you will really be in trouble.
You will begin to have problems on day For now, we are going to focus on updating the vCenter Server license. To enter your vCenter Server license, you must type out each and every character.
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