Assets are vCenter Server systems, hosts, vSAN clusters, Supervisor Clusters, and solutions. You can use the license management functionality in the vSphere Client to license multiple assets at a time from a central place. To license an asset in vSphere, you must assign it a license that holds an appropriate product license key. For vSAN+ clusters, license information is replaced with subscription information. When your vCenter Server is converted to vSphere+ subscription, all license information is replaced with subscription information.

Subscription Information for Your vCenter Server.

Examples of suite products are vCloud Suite and vSphere with Operations Management. When participating in a suite, suite components have different licensing models than their standalone versions. Suite products have a single license that you can assign to all suite components. Suite products combine multiple components to provide a certain set of capabilities. You can also convert your on-premises vSphere infrastructure to subscription by purchasing vSphere+ and vSAN+ subscriptions. To apply their licensing models correctly, you must understand how the associated assets consume the license capacity.

Licensing and Subscription for Products in vSphereĮSXi hosts, vCenter Server, vSAN clusters, and Supervisor Clusters are licensed differently.

If your vSphere 6.0 or later environment consists of vCenter Server 6.0 or later, and 5.5 systems, consider the differences in the license management and reporting between vSphere 6.0 and later, and vSphere 5.5.

Licensing for Environments with vCenter Server Systems 6.0 and Later, and 5.5.

The License Service delivers centralized license management and reporting functionality to vSphere and to products that integrate with vSphere. In vSphere 7.0, the License Service is part of the vSphere environment. The licensing system in vSphere uses specific terminology and definitions to refer to different licensing-related objects.

Licensing and Subscription Terminology and Definitions.To leverage several cloud capabilities while you manage your on-premises vSphere infrastructure, you can convert your vCenter Servers and vSAN clusters to subscription.įor more information about how to get access to cloud services for your on-premises vSphere environments, see the VMware vSphere+ documentation.

VSphere provides a centralized license management system that you can use to manage licenses for ESXi hosts, vCenter Server systems, vSAN clusters, Supervisor Clusters, and solutions.

Vmware vcenter 6.5 license key