This article will walk through that how to add license keys to VMware vSphere environment for vCenter Server and ESXi hosts. Managing license doesn’t change much compared to the previous VMware vSphere versions. In VMware vSphere 6.x version, VMware offers two type of web interface.
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- vSphere Web Client (Flash)
- vSphere Client (HTML5) – Partial Functionality
HTML5 interface looks promising and very responsive too but not all the functionality have been integrated to that. For example, Licensing. You can’t find the Licensing tab on vSphere client – HTML5 page. You must login to Flash-based web client to manage it. VMware has forced to move all the functionality to HTML5 since Adobe is planned to end flash player release by 2020.
Here is the reference snapshot of Flash-based Web-page & HTML5 web-page.
vSphere Web-client HTML5 :
vSphere Web-Client – Flash Based:
Let’s move on to adding the license key on VMware vSphere Web-client .
1. You must login to VMware vSphere Web-client based on Flash player. If you are not aware of the exact link, just get the root page of vSphere web-client.
2. Login to the vSphere web-client with admin privileges.
3. Click on “Licensing” from Administration tab.
4. Click on “+” add license keys.
5. Enter the license keys which are you would like to add. If you do not have license keys, you could procure from VMware. If you can’t afford a license for LAB purpose, Please use http://labs.hol.vmware.com which absolutely free of cost.
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6. Enter the meaningful license names.
7. Click Ok to add the licenses to the inventory.
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We have successfully added VMware ESXI 6.5 & vCenter Server 6.5 license keys to the inventory. Let’s assign the license key to the expired vCenter Server.
1. Navigate to assets tab from Licensing page. Click on “All Actions”.
2. Click on Assign License.
3.Select the valid license key. (May the one which we added recently)
4. Now you can see that valid license has been applied to a vCenter Server product.
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