

Recording the License Key of an ESXi Host If a host becomes inaccessible or unbootable, you should have a record of its license key. Before the evaluation mode expires, you must assign to your hosts a license that supports all the features in use. Do the same for ESXi Host in Hosts Tab if you want to assign License to ESXi Host. The evaluation mode provides the set of features equal to a vSphere Enterprise Plus license.

Go to Home > Click on Licenses under Administration Tab.

On top of console, you can see the note saying that licenses in our inventory either expired or not available.Here we have logged in thrugh Web Client. Login to Virtual Center using Web or vSphere Client.Manage License Key for Virtual Center Server:- Step#1 - Add License Key to Virtual Center Step#2 Assign License to Virtual Center.Step#1 Add License Key to Virtual Center.Please note the same we can do for ESXi Hosts. Click on Manage and select the Licensing tab.Two Steps to Manage this Licensing for vCenter. The host must not be managed by vCenter Server – hence the term standalone – when using these methods.Īs always, navigate to and log in as root. You can either use the host client or run the vim-cmd shell command. There are two ways to apply license keys on ESXi. There are several options you can use to manage license keys GUI, command line tools and PowerCLI. Click on Configuration tab and select Licensed Features. In today’s post, I go through the process of licensing the most frequently deployed VMware products these being ESXi and vCenter Server along with features such as vSAN. Connect to your ESXi host using vSphere Client. From a recently held conversation, I learned that licensing VMware products can be a tad confusing to some. I’ve written a number of posts on how to install ESXi, vCenter and similar products but if memory serves me right, I don’t recall explaining in any detail how to apply license keys after you’re done installing.
