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Licensing vCenter and ESXi

Licensing vCenter and ESXi - vSphere Tutorial

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Licensing vCenter and ESXi

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- In this video, I'll demonstrate how to assign license keys to a vSphere 6 environment using the vSphere Web Client. So, here you can see, I've already logged into the vSphere Web Client and I'm going to go ahead and click on Hosts and Clusters. And one of the first things you'll notice when we get into the Hosts and Clusters view, is that my host is currently disconnected. I have an ESXi host but it's disconnected at the moment. And if we click on the summary for this host, we can see the reason this host is disconnected from the vCenter, is the fact that the the host license is expired. So, when your host's licenses expire, and if you're using an evaluation license, for example, you will no longer be able to use vCenter to manage those ESXi hosts. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually go to my administration screen and under Administration, I can go ahead and apply some license keys. So, under Administration, I will click on Licenses. And you can see here, from my…

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