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When we are talking about VSphere licensing, i just want to let you know about the free license of ESXi and vCenter Server. Once you click on the reporting tab, you will get window like the below one.You can just click export to get the details in Excel sheet.It provides complete usage details of the installed license details. Assigning the License keysĥ.You can also extract the reports from the reporting tab. Once you have done,you click on the confirm changes. The below window shows vCenter Server licenses(Second tab).If you want to remove any existing license keys ,you can remove it using the next step. Managing the License Keys of VSphereĤ.The next step will be assigning the specific license keys to the products.In some cases, license may be purchased to run some limited VM’s and that needs to assigned to specific host.In this case ,you need to assign the license keys manually.For ESXi, you need to click on the first tab. This will popup the below window to manage the VSphere License keys.If you want to add any new license keys, you can just copy & paste one by one. License Keys of VMware Esxi and Vcenter Serverģ.In order to install or remove the existing License keys, you need to click on “Manage VSphere Licenses” (Step:2). Here you can see the existing license of Vmware ESXI nodes and VCenter Server. VMware Esxi & VCenter LicenseĢ.Navigate to Administration and Licensing.

Login to VSphere Client and navigate it home. How we can get the installed license keys of VMware ESXI servers and VCenter Server ?ġ. Here we will see how we can manage the ESXi and VCenter server licence using VSphere Client. Sometimes you may need to pull out the existing license keys for inventory purpose. However, in case you need something more serious, well, then, VMware has got something for you, more precisely – vSphere Software Asset Management Tool utility: ConclusionsĪs you can see, this algorithm is relatively straightforward and not at all tedious.Managing the license on VMware ESxi and VCenter is one of main job for system administrator.After the installation of the product, you may need to add the new license to increase the capacity and you may need to remove the old license keys from the those products. You are supposed to get a table like this: Speaking of which, if you want to know how many licenses exactly there are in the said data center and when do they expire, here’s a very simple script from. If such a situation occurred, you should simply buy more licenses, get a new key, and update all the licenses in your data center. If you’d like to add a key which capacity is lower than the licenses in use, you would be able to, even though Web Client/vSphere Client will notify you that the license capacity is overused: StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) OEM.