By continuing to use our website, you agree with our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy . You can reject cookies by changing your browser settings.

veeam-en Logo

VeeamON 2024 - Registration Open

safiya

  • Discussion Boards

Revoke and reassign license

  • 1 year ago 11 March 2022

Good morning I wanted information.

I have a vmware environment and with veaam I backup the VMs.

I wanted to know how I can remove an esx host from veeam licenses and thus freeing 2 sockets assign the license to another esx host. attached in file 1 I want to revoke socket for 172.40.0.14 and I want to assign it to another esx host that is managed by the same vcenter. kind regards

veeam assign license to esxi host

Best answer by haslund 11 March 2022, 09:36

haslund

  • 376 comments

Just select the 172.40.0.14 host and click the  Revoke  button. You don’t need to manually assign a license to the other host, this happens automatically as soon as you create a backup of a workload running on that host.

Chris.Childerhose

  • Chris.Childerhose
  • Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
  • 5685 comments

:point_up_tone2:

Already have an account? Login

Login to the community

Enter your username or e-mail address. We'll send you an e-mail with instructions to reset your password.

Scanning file for viruses.

Sorry, we're still checking this file's contents to make sure it's safe to download. Please try again in a few minutes.

This file cannot be downloaded

Sorry, our virus scanner detected that this file isn't safe to download.

Assigning License Keys

You can assign license keys internally or to managed resellers and companies. When you assign a license key, VCSP Pulse creates a license for the company and returns created license ID.

To assign license keys:

  • Log in to Veeam Service Provider Console .

For details, see Accessing Veeam Service Provider Console .

  • At the top right corner of the Veeam Service Provider Console window, click Configuration .
  • In the configuration menu on the left, click Plugin Library .
  • Click the VCSP Pulse plugin tile.
  • In the menu on the left, click License Keys .

Veeam Service Provider Console will display a list of all license keys managed in VCSP Pulse .

  • Select the necessary license keys.

To narrow down the list of license keys, you can apply the following filters:

  • Company Name — search the list of license keys by name of a company to which the license is assigned.
  • Site Name — search the list of license keys by name of a site on which the company is registered.
  • Product — search the list of license keys by the name of the product for which the license is assigned ( Veeam Backup Agents, Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise, Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication Standard, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Veeam Cloud Connect & Public Cloud Workloads, Veeam ONE ).
  • Assignment Status — limit the list of license keys by assignment status ( Assigned , Not Assigned ).
  • Usage Type — limit the list of license keys by usage type ( Single-customer use , Internal , Multi-customer use ).
  • Automatic Reporting — limit the list of license keys by by automatic reporting status ( Enabled, Disabled ).
  • Company Type — limit the list of license keys by type of a company to which the license is assigned ( Unassigned , End customer , Reseller , My company ).
  • At the top of the list, click License Actions and select Assign .

Alternatively, you can right-click the necessary license key, choose License Actions and select Assign .

  • In the Assign License window, select company type and the company to which you want to assign the license.
  • Click Assign .

Assign License Key

There is a misspelling right here:

I want to let the Veeam Documentation Team know about that.

R&D Forums

Your direct line to Veeam R&D. Not a support forum!

Skip to content

  • Main Products Veeam Backup & Replication

licensing socket and instances in same server

Post by ikbarbero » Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:46 pm this post

Re: licensing socket and instances in same server

Post by Mildur » Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:44 am this post

Post by veremin » Sun Apr 05, 2020 12:44 pm this post

Socket Licenses • Mandatory socket license usage for VM protection: In presence of a Socket license, protecting vSphere or Hyper-V VMs with agents or enterprise application plug-ins requires and consumes a socket license. This is the existing Veeam licensing policy that is now enforced at the product level. To avoid backup interruption after v10 upgrade, please ensure your socket license is sufficient to cover all hypervisor hosts where protected VMs reside, no matter of which Veeam product is used for protecting those VMs.

Post by Gostev » Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:34 pm 1 person likes this post

ikbarbero wrote: ↑ Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:46 pm disable license autoupdate from EM and manage it server by server?

Post by jamcool » Wed Jul 01, 2020 12:04 am this post

Post by Mildur » Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:51 am this post

Post by jamcool » Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:59 pm this post

Post by Gostev » Thu Jul 02, 2020 1:24 am this post

Post by jamcool » Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:30 am this post

[MERGED] Simultaneous usage of socket and instance licenses

Post by Akorzzar » Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:28 am this post

Post by Vitaliy S. » Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:34 am 1 person likes this post

Post by Akorzzar » Tue Jul 21, 2020 11:16 am this post

Return to “Veeam Backup & Replication”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 60 guests

  • All times are UTC

DISCLAIMER: All feature and release plans are subject to change without notice.

Powered by phpBB ® Forum Software © phpBB Limited

Privacy | Terms | Cookie Settings

veeam assign license to esxi host

  • Consultancy and Migration
  • Contract Staffing
  • Data Analytics
  • DevOps and DevSecOps
  • Managed Services
  • Media Services
  • Generative AI with AWS
  • AI, ML & IOT
  • Cloud Native
  • Containerization
  • Well Architected Review
  • Well Architected Infrastructure
  • AWS Know Your Architecture
  • Migration Services
  • DevOps Services
  • AWS Microsoft Workloads
  • AWS Machine Learning
  • AWS Storage
  • Amazon QuickSight
  • Amazon API Gateway
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Observability With AWS
  • GenAI STACQ
  • Smart Document Search with GenAI
  • Intelligent Document Processing
  • Real-time Customer Call Analysis
  • SmartMail Solution
  • Individual Training
  • Corporate Training
  • Job Guarantee Program
  • Training Calendar
  • Azure Mastey Pass
  • AWS Mastery Pass
  • DevOps Mastery Pass
  • Microsoft Dynamics Mastery Pass
  • Microsoft Security Mastery Pass
  • Power Platform Mastery Pass
  • Hire From Us

About CloudThat

  • Join Our Team
  • News and Event

veeam assign license to esxi host

Tutorials, VMware

veeam assign license to esxi host

How to add and assign vSphere licenses to vCenter & ESXi hosts

veeam assign license to esxi host

  • By Rahulkumar Shrimali

veeam assign license to esxi host

Prerequisites

  • Installation, Configuration Skill of vCenter
  • Basic understanding of vCenter Inventory
  • Access to a vSphere environment with vCenter Server
  • Access to valid License Keys for vCenter & ESXI Hosts

Revolutionize Your Data Center with VMware

  • Understand new features
  • Best practices available
  • Instructor led courses

After completing this lab, you will be able to add and activate vSphere license for ESXi hosts and vCenter. You will be able to perform the following tasks asks:

  • Exploring license services from vCenter
  • Add license keys to vCenter Inventory
  • Assign vSphere license to vCenter & ESXi Server
  • Validate or verify vCenter 7 ESXi host licenses

Step-by-Step Lab Guide

veeam assign license to esxi host

Get your new hires billable within 1-60 days. Experience our Capability Development Framework today.

  • Cloud Training
  • Customized Training
  • Experiential Learning

CloudThat, incepted in 2012, is the first Indian organization to offer Cloud training and consultancy for mid-market and enterprise clients. Our business aims to provide global services on Cloud Engineering, Training, and Expert Line. The expertise in all major cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), positions us as pioneers.

veeam assign license to esxi host

  • vSpherelicenses

WRITTEN BY Rahulkumar Shrimali

veeam assign license to esxi host

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Related Resources

Discover our most popular courses for self learning

veeam assign license to esxi host

Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power BI

Marching towards a productive workforce with Microsoft Viva Insights

By Sushma Uday Kamat

Feb 22, 2024

veeam assign license to esxi host

AWS, AWS Certification

Exploring Sensational AWS and .NET SDK in Visual Studio

By Deepa Dharanendra Saibannavar

veeam assign license to esxi host

Vertex AI Search: Can Google Claim Victory in the

By Rajesh KVN

veeam assign license to esxi host

How much does an AWS certification cost?

By Rashmi D

Feb 21, 2024

veeam assign license to esxi host

AWS, AWS Certification, Cloud Computing

Is coding necessary for AWS?

By Sheeja Narayanan

Feb 20, 2024

veeam assign license to esxi host

AWS, Cloud Computing, DevOps

Best Ways to Accelerate Development with AWS CodePipeline and

By Abhilasha D

veeam assign license to esxi host

AWS, Cloud Computing

AWS IAM Access Analyzer for Enhanced Resource Protection

By Deepak Surendran

veeam assign license to esxi host

Cloud Computing, DevOps

The Power of Terragrunt in IaC Management

By Karthik Kumar P V

veeam assign license to esxi host

AWS CodeBuild, Amazon Inspector, and SBOM for Enhanced Container

By Deepak S

veeam assign license to esxi host

Amazon RDS Tailored Solution for SQL Server

By Bhanu Prakash K

Get The Most Out Of Us

Our support doesn't end here. We have monthly newsletters, study guides, practice questions, and more to assist you in upgrading your cloud career. Subscribe to get them all!

©COPYRIGHT 2024 CLOUDTHAT TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED · ALL RIGHTS RESERVED · PRIVACY POLICY · TERMS OF USE · DISCLAIMER · CANCELLATION AND REFUND

Free, easy, centralized enterprise backup solution for VMware, Hyper-V, Windows PCs, Windows Servers, and MSSQL Server.

Windows & Linux

AOMEI Cyber Backup

  • AOMEI Cyber Backup >
  • Enterprise Backup Solutions >

How to Assign a License to VMware ESXi Host

When you prepare to run VMware ESXi in vSphere environment, you need to get a license key first. This article will introduce how to assign a license to ESXi host.

Crystal

By Crystal / Updated on March 8, 2023

  • Way 1. Add license to ESXi host via Web Client

Way 2. Assign a license to ESXi host via vSphere Client

Overview of vmware esxi license.

VMware licenses are 25-character strings that includes letters and digits, divided into 5-character blocks with the “-” symbol. The license keys contain encrypted information about the purchased product edition and are not tied to hardware. You can assign the same VMware ESXi license key to multiple ESXi hosts until the total number of processors exceeds the CPU (central processing unit) capacity allowed by the license.

ESXi hosts are licensed with VMware vSphere licenses on a per-processor basis.  VMware ESXi free is more suitable for personal environment or family lab since it has multiple limitations on vStorage API, CPU, memory size, etc. For enterprise running multiple VMs, it’d better to add a paid license to ESXi host, which enables third-party backup tools to interact with the hypervisor directly and increase the high-availability of virtual machines. For ESXi Evaluation version, it’s better to add a license until the evaluation period expires.

This article introduces how to add license to ESXi host step by step.

Note : A multicore CPU is counted as one CPU if the number of physical CPU cores is not higher than 32. If a CPU has more than 32 cores, then an additional CPU license must be applied. The amount of RAM and the number of running VMs are not limited by VMware licenses.

How to add license to ESXi host (2 Ways)

There are 2 ways to add a license to ESXi host. You can choose follow of them to get started.

Way 1. Add license to ESXi host via Web Client

1. Open VMware ESXi web and enter the IP address of the ESXi host that you want to license.

2. Select Manage , then click on Licensing >> Assign license .

3. In the opened wizard, enter the license key and click Check license to verify whether the license key is valid. If you see the green icon, please select Assign license to add this license to the ESXi host.

4. Back to the Licensing tab, you can notice the information of the ESXi host which shows the license has been successfully added to VMware ESXi host.

1. Login to VMware vSphere Client.

2. Access to Hosts and Clusters , select your Datacenter, then click on an ESXi host with license.

3. Select Configuration >> Licensing >> Assign License .

4. In the Assign License window, you can assign an existing license that has unused CPUs to ESXi host if you added multiple license keys to vCenter. And you can also assign a new license key to VMware ESXi host. For example, select New License .

5. Enter the license key, then type a name for the license. Click OK .

6. In the Assign License dialog box, select the newly created license, and click OK .

No matter which ESXi license you use, you should back up your virtual machines regularly for data protection.

Free and agentless backup solution for licensed VMware ESXi host

For VMware ESXi backup, it’s available for you to clone VM , copy files of virtual machine and export VM to OVF. However, these methods usually require you to do them manually and one-by-one, making it difficult to take advantage of the benefits of licensed VMware ESXi - centralized backup and management.

To protect virtual machines in batch and simplify the data management, it's best to use a professional backup software. Here I will use the free VMware backup software  -  AOMEI Cyber Backup  as an example. It supports VMware ESXi 6.0-7.0 except ESXi hosts using the free ESXi license due to disabled VMware APIs. It is an agentless backup tool that offers automatic and flexible backups for VMware ESXi virtual machines. With this professional backup tool, you can schedule comprehensive backup tasks for free.

Perpetual Free : No time limit for AOMEI Cyber Backup Free Edition. Support Free ESXi : AOMEI Cyber Backup supports both paid and free versions of VMware ESXi. Agentless Backup : Backup virtual machines at host level without installing agent on each VM, reducing O&M costs. Automate VMware Backup : Run VM backup tasks automatically to offer continuous VM protection and reduce human errors. Instant Disaster Recovery : Once the VMware crashes, quickly restore VMware to normal state and easily migrate VM to another host. Role-Assignment : allow one administrator to create sub-accounts with limited privilege, effectively reduce administration cost and manual errors.

Please hit the button below to download and use AOMEI Cyber Backup for free:

*You can choose to install this VM backup software on either Windows or Linux system.

Safeguard VMware ESXi backup for free:

1. Click Backup Task >> Create New Task to schedule VMware ESXi backups.

2. In the opened wizard, enter the Task Name and select VMware ESXi Backup .

✦  In Device Name section, select one or more virtual machines to back up simultaneously.

✦  In Target section, specify a location to store VM backups such as network or local place. If you connect to NAS, you can easily backup VM to NAS .

✦  In Schedule section, enable schedule task and choose full/incremental/differential backup, then specify backup time and frequency as daily/weekly/monthly.

✦  Click Start Backup . From the drop-down menu, you can decide to perform backup later or now.

3.  Restore : You can restore the whole VM and virtual environment within a few clicks. It doesn’t require any complicated reinstallation and configuration.

✍ While the Free Edition covers most of the VM backup needs, you can also upgrade to Premium Edition to enjoy: ✦ Batch VM Backup : Batch backup large numbers of VMs managed by vCenter Server or standalone ESXi hosts. ✦ Backup Cleanup : Configure retention policy to auto delete the old backup files and save storage space. ✦ Restore to new location : Easily make a clone of a virtual machine in the same or another datastore/host, without reinstalling or configuring a new VM.

This article describes how to add license to ESXi host. You can assign a license in VMware Host Client for a standalone ESXi host and in VMware vSphere Client for ESXi hosts that are managed by vCenter Server .

No matter which ESXi license you use, you should back up your virtual machines regularly, which protects your data and business security.

Crystal

Related Articles

Vmware vsphere edition comparison and features introduction.

With the growing popularity of VMware vSphere in the virtualization industry, you may also want to give it a try, but are confused by its complex features and multiple editions. This article presents you with a VMware vSphere edition comparison table.

Configure vSphere Replication to Protect VM – Best Practices

To avoid data loss in disaster events, VMware vSphere Replication creates a copy to protect virtual machine simultaneously at the target site. This article demonstrates the VMware vSphere Replication best practices in deploying, configuration and recovery.

Can You Have Multiple vCenter Servers

In order to manage a large scale of virtual environment, you may need multiple vCenter Servers to work simultaneously. So this article, you can lean how to configure enhanced linked mode to connect vCenter Servers.

Backup and Restore vCenter by Using NFS | Detailed Steps

Backing up vCenter by using NFS is to protect your vCenter from accidents, and it allows you to restore vCenter easily. This article explains the basic knowledge about vCenter backup and detailed steps on how to back up vCenter to NFS.

Free Get AOMEI Cyber Backup Now – Simple & Powerful

133M+ worldwide users 14 years data security experience

  • Protect VMware, Hyper-V, Windows PCs & Servers and MSSQL Servers.
  • Save backups to local path, network drive / NAS drive.
  • Fast and granular recovery to minimize downtime.

veeam assign license to esxi host

Mastering VMware

  • Switch skin

veeam assign license to esxi host

How to Assign License to ESXi Host ?

Photo of Mayur Parmar

After installing an ESXi host we need to add or assign the License to the ESXi to use the full features of it. So in this post we will see on how to assign license to the ESXi host.

1

Step 2: Choose the ESXi host from Navigator Pane. Click on the Manage Tab. Click on Settings. Click on System > Licensing

1-2

Step 4: Click on Assign License on the right side. Here you will get the Licensed available or currently assigned.

3

Step 6: Provide the License Name & you will also get License Information here. Click Next to proceed.

5

That’s it for Today Friends. I Hope you liked reading this post & If you find anything more to be added or removed feel free to write it in our comments. If you find it useful You are Feel free to share this on social media to help others & spread knowledge. If you have any query on any thing you are free to write it in our comments section & we will make sure to provide you the better solution as soon as possible.

Checkout our Facebook Group for Discussions & More Stuff. Like & Share our Facebook Page for Latest Updates.

Photo of Mayur Parmar

Mayur Parmar

Related articles.

esxi67-installation-0

How to Install ESXi 6.7 Step by Step

ESXi67-Upgrade-0

How to Upgrade ESXi 6.5 to ESXi 6.7

add-user-to-administrator-group-2

How to add user into administrator group ?

Snapshot-2

How to Take Snapshot ?

very usefull and practical manner thank you so much sir

Your Welcome @Nitish Kumar. Keep Visiting & Share your valuable reviews.

Thank You. Mayur Parmar.

Awesome posts Mayur bhai..keep posting it.

Thanks Jatin for your valuable opinion.

Awesome Mayur! Thanks

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Notify me of follow-up comments by email.

Notify me of new posts by email.

veeam assign license to esxi host

  • Code Samples
  • Join {code}
  • Login Login with your VMware account (Customer Connect credentials).
  • Description
  • Browse Code

Assign license to ESXi HostSystem

View on GitHub.com

Contributor

   0 Favorite

  119 Downloads

  Created 6 years ago

  Updated 6 years ago

vRealize Orchestrator Plug-in SDK

vSphere Management SDK

vSphere 8.0

API Documentation

Virtual Storage Lifecycle Management API 8.0U2

VMware Storage Policy API 8.0U2

vSphere Web Services API 8.0

vSphere ESX Agent Manager API 8.0

Virtual Storage Lifecycle Management API 8.0U1

vSphere Web Services API 8.0U1

vSphere ESX Agent Manager API 8.0U2

vCenter Storage Monitoring Service API 8.0

vSphere Web Services API 8.0U2

VMware Storage Policy API 8.0U1

vCenter Storage Monitoring Service API 8.0U2

vSphere ESX Agent Manager API 8.0U1

VMware Storage Policy API 8.0

Virtual Storage Lifecycle Management API 8.0

vCenter Storage Monitoring Service API 8.0U1

Oh no, you're thinking, yet another cookie pop-up. Well, sorry, it's the law. We measure how many people read us, and ensure you see relevant ads, by storing cookies on your device. If you're cool with that, hit “Accept all Cookies”. For more info and to customize your settings, hit “Customize Settings”.

Review and manage your consent

Here's an overview of our use of cookies, similar technologies and how to manage them. You can also change your choices at any time, by hitting the “Your Consent Options” link on the site's footer.

Manage Cookie Preferences

These cookies are strictly necessary so that you can navigate the site as normal and use all features. Without these cookies we cannot provide you with the service that you expect.

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

These cookies collect information in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used. They allow us to count visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our sites. If people say no to these cookies, we do not know how many people have visited and we cannot monitor performance.

veeam assign license to esxi host

Special Features

Vendor voice.

veeam assign license to esxi host

Virtualization

comment bubble on white

Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

Certain licenses still allow tinkerers to taste the vstack. whether they want to is another matter.

Broadcom has discontinued the free version of VMware's ESXi hypervisor.

News of the change came in a Monday knowledge base article that revealed the tool was removed from VMware.com and offered the following explanation for the change:

Along with the termination of perpetual licensing, Broadcom has also decided to discontinue the Free ESXi Hypervisor, marking it as EOGA (End of General Availability).

The free cut of ESXi was only able to run on limited number of cores, addressed a modest quantity of memory, and lacked many management niceties. So while it was able to be used in production it was more suited to testing, tinkering, and hobbyists. But when used in those roles it often led to production deployments, or improved the skills of IT pros who later became champions of the vStack.

Ending availability of the free version won't mean it's no longer possible to use the hypervisor without paying full freight: the VMWare User Group "advantage" licensing persists, as do trialware versions of the product.

Gartner research vice president Michael Warrilow told The Register the change may therefore not be significant.

"Given all the disruption facing VMware customers right now, many will misinterpret this move. Unless VMware no longer offers a trial edition, there's not a lot of impact," he told us. Warrilow added: "Microsoft no longer offers a free edition of Hyper-V Server, so if you want a free alternative there's several good open source options to explore."

veeam assign license to esxi host

Those alternatives include Nutanix's Community Edition, introduced in 2015 to tempt the curious.

  • Microsoft brings its cloudy virtual desktops on-prem to AzureStack HCI

Cloud Software Group effectively snuffs open source XenCenter via a README file

Dell kills sweetheart distribution deal with broadcom's vmware, amid broadcom's subscription push, vmware killed a saas product.

Justin Warren, the principal analyst of consultancy Pivot Nine, told The Register the demise of free vSphere means "Broadcom has pretty clearly signaled that it is no longer interested in smaller VMware customers.

"Unless you can justify a commitment to at least vSphere Foundation, Broadcom is happy to ignore you."

Warren rated the change "another gift to competitors like Nutanix, Scale Computing, Microsoft with Hyper-V/Azure Stack, or Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (via KubeVirt). Their salespeople must be shopping for new boats. Or there are good, free options like Proxmox."

Warren added his opinion that this change is bad for VMware's longer-term prospects.

"This will impact the pipeline to new adoption for VMware, he predicted. "The free version was a way for people to become familiar with VMware, especially early in their career. A lot of now-CIOs, CTOs, etc. got their start that way. New people are likely to adopt something else now, and Broadcom must know that. A drop-off in new adoption may have already happened, so this could be a reaction by Broadcom rather than an instigation. The outcome is the same, though."

The demise of free vSphere comes after Broadcom recently made the operation of 3,500 cores running VMware Cloud Foundation the minimum requirement for inclusion in its cloud partner program.

Pre-acquisition VMware proudly touted the 4,000-plus small clouds that ran its stack, and applauded their ability to offer services that hyperscalers could not – especially providing sovereign clouds that lacked the complex legal entanglements that see multinational hyperscalers sometimes beholden to laws of their home jurisdictions. It is unclear how many of VMware's old cloud partners run enough cores to continue as Broadcom partners.

Meanwhile, the implications of Broadcom's decision to end perpetual licenses for VMware products continue to be analyzed by users. The change means software changes from per-VM licensing to a per-core subscription.

One VMware consultant of The Register 's acquaintance told us the change means some workloads now appear to be cheaper to run on bare metal than under vSphere.

Broadcom has pledged to increase VMware's profits substantially and quickly. ®

  • Software License

Narrower topics

Broader topics.

  • Cloud Computing
  • Semiconductor

Send us news

Other stories you might like

Broadcom moves to reassure vmware users as rivals smell an opportunity, vmware takes a swing at nutanix, red hat with kvm conversion tool, employing your cloud data warehouse to scale up ai/ml.

veeam assign license to esxi host

In pursuit of artificial general intelligence, Meta adds Broadcom boss Hock Tan to its board

European cloud providers locked in talks with microsoft over licensing complaint, veeam researching support for vmware alternative proxmox as backup buyers fret about broadcom, as broadcom nukes vmware's channel, the big winner is set to be nutanix, restrictive licensing keeps businesses grounded in cloud vendor vortex, broadcom ditches vmware cloud service providers.

icon

  • Advertise with us

Our Websites

  • The Next Platform
  • Blocks and Files

Your Privacy

  • Cookies Policy
  • Your Consent Options
  • Privacy Policy

Situation Publishing

Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024

no-js

License Calculator for VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation and VMware vSAN. (96426)

VMware by Broadcom has created a license calculator to familiarize users with  the new simplified subscription portfolio with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware vSAN. This calculator can be used to simulate different licensing scenarios. Before using the calculator, refer to KB Article 95727  to learn about the licensing details for VCF, VVF and vSAN.

The License Calculator for VCF, VVF and vSAN allows users to enter in sample configuration data to run different simulations to determine the subscription licenses required for VCF, VVF and vSAN.

How to use the License calculator  Prerequisites:

  • Download the attachment and extract the CSV template file and script.

The script accepts a CSV file, which a CSV template file has been included to enter data for different configurations for simulations.  When using the template CSV file, please note the following rules:

1.    Do not rename the column ID as that is referenced by the script. 2.    Each row represents either a vSphere and/or vSAN cluster.

Enter in data for each of the column ID in order under each row. See column ID descriptions and data examples in the table below.

Instructions for using the VCF/VVF Calculator # Dot source the function . ./vcf-vvf-calculator.ps1 # Example calculator for VCF Get-VCFandVVFCalculator -InputFile sample-input.csv -DeploymentType VCF # Example calculator for VVF Get-VCFandVVFCalculator -InputFile sample-input.csv -DeploymentType VCF # Example calculator for VCF and export results to CSV Get-VCFandVVFCalculator -InputFile sample-input.csv -DeploymentType VCF - Csv # Example calculator for VVF and export results to CSV Get-VCFandVVFCalculator -InputFile sample-input.csv -DeploymentType VVF - Csv

Output Example Here is an example output after running the License Calculator for VVF and vSAN and the table below describes each of the columns in the VVF Compute and vSAN sections. Note the bottom of the output shows the total quantity of VVF core and vSAN TiB licenses required. VCF with vSAN Capacity Licensing Example:

image.png

  • VMware vSphere ESXi
  • VMware vSAN
  • VMware Cloud Foundation
  • VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0
  • VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0
  • VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0
  • VMware vSAN 7.0.x
  • VMware vSAN 6.0.x
  • VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1.x
  • VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5.x
  • sample-input
  • vcf-vvf-calculator.ps1
  • Mobile Site
  • Staff Directory
  • Advertise with Ars

Filter by topic

  • Biz & IT
  • Gaming & Culture

Front page layout

freesphere —

Broadcom-owned vmware kills the free version of esxi virtualization software, software's free version was a good fit for tinkerers and hobbyists..

Andrew Cunningham - Feb 13, 2024 10:27 pm UTC

Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software

Since Broadcom's $61 billion acquisition of VMware closed in November 2023, Broadcom has been charging ahead with major changes to the company's personnel and products. In December, Broadcom began laying off thousands of employees and stopped selling perpetually licensed versions of VMware products , pushing its customers toward more stable and lucrative software subscriptions instead. In January, it ended its partner programs , potentially disrupting sales and service for many users of its products.

This week, Broadcom is making a change that is smaller in scale but possibly more relevant for home users of its products: The free version of VMware's vSphere Hypervisor, also known as ESXi, is being discontinued .

Further Reading

ESXi is what is known as a "bare-metal hypervisor," lightweight software that runs directly on hardware without requiring a separate operating system layer in between. ESXi allows you to split a PC's physical resources (CPUs and CPU cores, RAM, storage, networking components, and so on) among multiple virtual machines. ESXi also supports passthrough for PCI, SATA, and USB accessories, allowing guest operating systems direct access to components like graphics cards and hard drives.

The free version of ESXi had limits compared to the full, paid enterprise versions—it could only support up to two physical CPUs, didn't come with any software support, and lacked automated load-balancing and management features. But it was still useful for enthusiasts and home users who wanted to run multipurpose home servers or to split a system's time between Windows and one or more Linux distributions without the headaches of dual booting. It was also a useful tool for people who used the enterprise versions of the vSphere Hypervisor but wanted to test the software or learn its ins and outs without dealing with paid licensing.

For the latter group, a 60-day trial of the VMware vSphere 8 software is still available . Tinkerers will be better off trying to migrate to an alternative product instead, like Proxmox , XCP-ng , or even the Hyper-V capabilities built into the Pro versions of Windows 10 and 11.

reader comments

Channel ars technica.

  • VMware Technology Network
  • Cloud & SDDC
  • VMware vSphere
  • VMware vSphere™ Discussions
  • Re: VM Power on failures after adding PCIe device ...
  • Subscribe to RSS Feed
  • Mark Topic as New
  • Mark Topic as Read
  • Float this Topic for Current User
  • Printer Friendly Page

jhyicraft

  • Mark as New
  • Report Inappropriate Content

VM Power on failures after adding PCIe device (GPU passthrough)

jhyicraft_0-1707979846834.png

PCI Passthru

  • All forum topics
  • Previous Topic

berndweyand

IMAGES

  1. How to Assign a License to VMware ESXi Host

    veeam assign license to esxi host

  2. VMware ESXi 7 : Initial Settings : Assign License Key : Server World

    veeam assign license to esxi host

  3. How to Assign a License to VMware ESXi Host

    veeam assign license to esxi host

  4. Learn How to License vCenter, ESXi and vSAN

    veeam assign license to esxi host

  5. How to License and Activate a VMware ESXi Host

    veeam assign license to esxi host

  6. Veeam Backup & Replication 10 VMware ESXİ Host Ekleme

    veeam assign license to esxi host

VIDEO

  1. 07About Veeam and Esxi (1)

  2. Veeam V12

  3. Easily Backup Your Data With Veeam Agent #Windows #XCubeNAS

  4. Welcome to VeeamON 2023

  5. Mennek a Veeam backup jobok az esxi szerverről

  6. Veeam Community Recap #133

COMMENTS

  1. Licensing

    Licensing Types of Licenses Instance Consumption for Object Storage Backup, File Backup and File to Tape Jobs Obtaining and Renewing License Installing License Merging Licenses Viewing License Information Revoking License Removing License Exceeding License Limit License Expiration Updating License Automatic License Usage Reporting Deployment

  2. Configure License Settings for an ESXi Host

    Procedure Navigate to the host in the inventory. Select the Configure tab. Under Settings, select Licensing. Click Assign License. In the Assign License dialog box, select the task that you want to perform. In the vSphere Client, select an existing license or select a newly created license. Results The license is assigned to the host.

  3. Assigning Licences to Hosts?

    1. Can a merged licence file be created with different licence versions? 2. Will assigning a new licence file remove all current licence assignments and force licences to be auto-assigned to hosts during the next backup? 3.

  4. Managing licenses on ESXi hosts using the vSphere Web Client ...

    To be able to use certain features and functionality of an ESXi host, you must assign it a license key when the evaluation period of the host expires. Note: Before adding and viewing a license, verify that you have the Global.Licenses privilege.

  5. Licensing for ESXi Hosts

    To license an ESXi host, you must assign it a vSphere license that meets the following prerequisites: The license must have sufficient capacity to license all physical CPUs on the host. The license must support all the features that the host uses.

  6. Assign a License Key to an ESXi Host in the VMware Host Client

    Assign a License Key to an ESXi Host in the VMware Host Client Add to Library RSS Download PDF Feedback Updated on 07/11/2019 By using the VMware Host Client, you can assign an existing or new license key to an ESXi host. Prerequisites Verify that you have the Global.Licenses privilege.

  7. Licensing ESXi 6.x/7.0.x and vCenter Server 6.x/7.0.x (2107538)

    Option 1 Connect to the vCenter Web Console as administrator. Click Hosts and Clusters. Right click on the system (vCenter/vSphere ESXi - Host) you want to license to. Select Assign license. If the license is not in the vCenter Server: Click NEW LICENSE Tab. Enter the License key. Enter the License name. Click Next.

  8. Licensed Objects

    A managed host is a host that is included in the monitoring and reporting scope with Veeam ONE inclusion rules. For details, see Choosing VMs and VM Containers to Monitor and Report On. Per Instance Licensing. Veeam ONE can be licensed by the number of instances. An instance is a unit (or token) that is assigned to an object to make it ...

  9. Revoke and reassign license

    I wanted to know how I can remove an esx host from veeam licenses and thus freeing 2 sockets assign the license to another esx host. attached in file 1 I want to revoke socket for 172.40..14 and I want to assign it to another esx host that is managed by the same vcenter. kind regards icon Best answer by haslund

  10. Licensing and Subscription in vSphere

    To license an ESXi host, you must assign to it a vSphere license that meets the following prerequisites: The license must have sufficient capacity depending on the licensing model. The license must support all the features that the host uses.

  11. Assigning License Keys

    Assigning License Keys. To assign license keys: Log in to Veeam Service Provider Console.; For details, see Accessing Veeam Service Provider Console.. At the top right corner of the Veeam Service Provider Console window, click Configuration.; In the configuration menu on the left, click Plugin Library.; Click the VCSP Pulse plugin tile.; In the menu on the left, click License Keys.

  12. replacing esxi hosts

    just run a backup - it will assign the licenses automatically if required @2: as direct SAN mode is not available for VSAN, you will probably have to change your backup mode. If you choose Hot-Add / Virtual appliance mode, then one proxy per VSAN host is recommended for best performance / efficiency. Best regards, Hannes andreas2012

  13. licensing socket and instances in same server

    You can't use socket license for esxi 1-4 and instance license for esxi 5-8 on the same veeam backup server. Veeam will try to use always socket license in this scenario. Product Management Analyst @ Veeam Software veremin Product Manager Posts: 20255 Liked: 2247 times Joined: Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:28 pm Full Name: Vladimir Eremin

  14. Unable to Assign a License to an ESXi Host

    You might be unable to assign a license to an ESXi host because of the following reasons: The calculated license usage for the host exceeds the license capacity. For example, you have a vSphere license key with capacity for two CPUs. You try to assign the key to a host that has four CPUs.

  15. Can I assign a vSphere 7 license to an esxi 6.7 host?

    I'm getting ready to upgrade our production cluster of esxi 6.7 hosts to esxi 7.x. I upgraded our DR cluster to esxi 7.x a couple weeks ago, and each host got evaluation licenses assigned to them. The only way I could assign v7 licenses to the (now) v7 esxi hosts was to disconnect each host from vcenter, log into each host individually, assign ...

  16. Start a New VMware Aria Operations for Logs Deployment

    Navigate to Integration > vSphere and configure VMware Aria Operations for Logs to pull tasks, events, and alerts from vCenter Server instances, and to configure ESXi hosts to send syslog feeds to VMware Aria Operations for Logs.; Assign a permanent license to VMware Aria Operations for Logs.See Assign a Permanent License to Log Insight in Administering VMware Aria Operations for Logs.

  17. How to add and assign vSphere licenses to vCenter & ESXi hosts

    Step-by-Step Lab Guide. Open vCenter using vSphere Client & click the Menu.Go to Administration option and select License.; Keep all keys in one text file and make sure you have access to the valid License Keys of vCenter Server, ESI hosts from the text file.; Click on Add New Licenses.; Add all keys for vCenter and ESXi hosts with proper names. Make sure all licenses should appear as shown.

  18. Solved: How can I change the license to another host?

    08-20-2015 06:30 AM As mentioned before, it should actually take only a few minutes, so with the two days you already waited there seems to be something wrong. Please take a look at VMware KB: vCenter Server 6.0 incorrectly displays the amount of licenses in use by ESXi hosts to see whether this helps identifying/solving the issue.

  19. How to Assign a License to VMware ESXi Host

    1. Open VMware ESXi web and enter the IP address of the ESXi host that you want to license. 2. Select Manage, then click on Licensing >> Assign license. 3. In the opened wizard, enter the license key and click Check license to verify whether the license key is valid.

  20. How to Assign License to ESXi Host

    Step 1: Login to vSphere Web Client. Click on the Hosts & Clusters. Step 2: Choose the ESXi host from Navigator Pane. Click on the Manage Tab. Click on Settings. Click on System > Licensing Step 3: You will get the available license information here. Step 4: Click on Assign License on the right side.

  21. Assign license to ESXi HostSystem

    VMware Storage Policy API 8.0U2. vSphere Web Services API 8.0. vSphere ESX Agent Manager API 8.0. Virtual Storage Lifecycle Management API 8.0U1. vSphere Web Services API 8.0U1. vSphere ESX Agent Manager API 8.0U2. vCenter Storage Monitoring Service API 8.0. vSphere Web Services API 8.0U2. VMware Storage Policy API 8.0U1. vCenter Storage ...

  22. Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor

    Whether they want to is another matter. Simon Sharwood. Tue 13 Feb 2024 // 03:46 UTC. Broadcom has discontinued the free version of VMware's ESXi hypervisor. News of the change came in a Monday knowledge base article that revealed the tool was removed from VMware.com and offered the following explanation for the change:

  23. License Calculator for VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere

    VMware by Broadcom has created a license calculator to familiarize users with the new simplified subscription portfolio with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware vSAN. This calculator can be used to simulate different licensing scenarios. ... This column displays the quantity of hosts in the cluster.

  24. Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization

    ESXi is what is known as a "bare-metal hypervisor," lightweight software that runs directly on hardware without requiring a separate operating system layer in between. ESXi allows you to split a ...

  25. Re: VM Power on failures after adding PCIe device ...

    vSphere and ESXi Host client's event log does not show any details for the vm power on failure. (vCenter is provisioned on the one of the ESXi host in the cluster as a VM) @berndweyand . I want to assign the L40 with passthrough first. but the passthrough enabled, vm cannot start (without gpu manager in the esxi host)