Vcenter Server License Keygen: The Best Way to Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure

The Assign License window opens in the web interface. If you added multiple license keys to vCenter, click Existing licenses and select a license that has unused CPUs. In my example, I will assign a new ESXi license to the vCenter server.

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Remember, the vCenter license that comes with VMware vSphere, the vCenter Server evaluation license, lasts 60 days, as do the other VMware evaluation licenses. This means your vCenter server license expires on day 61 if you forgot to enter the vCenter license key at the time of deployment.

It should be as easy as just grabbing the vCenter license key and plopping it in to VMware vCenter, but sometimes it is not. I am going to show you one of the most common issues I have seen when updating and expired VMware vCenter server license and how to fix it. This lesson also applies to updating or assigning ESXi licenses, or vSAN licenses.

There are two components when you are adding a license like the vCenter license to VMware vSphere. First, you must add the license to vCenter server. Then, you assign it to an asset, in this case vCenter itself.

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.

We got our VxRail installed with VxRail 4.7 and vCenter 6.7. We attempted to link VxRail with our production environemnt to migrate VM's we were not made aware this was not an option. We had updated vCenter with vmware update manager then worked with Dell support to migrate the PSC to an embedded PSC. This was messy but worked until we wanted to upgrade both to version 7. Dell support helped us get through all the errors getting both vCenter and VxRail to their respective current versions. Now our vCenter server license that is apparently part of VxRail didn't update and converted to an evaluation license. vsan and esxi licenses upgraded and are working fine it's only the instance license.

This article focuses on how to add licenses to vCenter and ESXi server. For more detailed information on pricing and licensing VMWare has provided nice WhitePaper pdf. Its worth reading this official vmware document. On my newly deployed vsphere Productions in the office I was keep getting warning message, On the vSphere web client there was message in yellow rectangle at the top, There are vCenter Server Systems with expired or expiring licenses in your inventory and by default it will be evaluation mode for next 60 days, To add licenses click on Manage your licenses. it lands on the Administration>Licenses tab. Here select Licenses tab, click on Green Plus + button to add licenses. Here I can add multiple licenses for ESXi and vCenter server at once, as shown License keys should be one per line. and it will be 25 digit key.Deploy install VCSA (vCenter server appliance 6.5) on VMWare Workstation

Once next button is pressed it detects and shows what is the licenses key is for. In my case it is showing entered license key is for vmware vsphere server 6 standard (instances). Type some name for license it can be a company or project name (purchased for according to my company).

Now all licenses has been added, Its time for assigning licenses to the trial mode vCenter server by selecting Assets tab then vCenter Server Systems, check vCenter server and assign licenses, (It's in evaluation mode)

Once I press ok I Esxi server is no more in trial evaluation mode. Same procedure can be used against cluster when assigning licenses, Also Solutions tab is for other vmware products, we can assign licenses to Site Recovery Manager, NSX and other vsphere softwares. Once I assign all the licenses warning message will go away.

I have created the following PowerShell example script called add-vcenter-license-with-label-via-mob.ps1 which you will need to download locally to your desktop and then update the following variables to match those within your enviornment: 2ff7e9595c