

Major upgrades (from 6.x to 7.x) do require license key upgrades. VSphere upgrades from 6.5 to 6.7 or 7.0 to 7.0 U3 are considered “point upgrades” and do not require license key upgrades Maybe it will help a few others along the way… vSphere License Keys and Upgrades This made me dig into my memory banks a bit and I wanted to document it so I would remember. They received a warning that the DRS in Maintenance Mode feature was not supported with their vSphere Enterprise Plus license. When they applied these license keys to their vSphere hosts They had just upgraded their licenses in the VMware Customer Connect portal. Their VMware vSphere environment upgrade was complete. Enjoy Managing the Inventory.I was helping a customer with a question they ran into after upgrading from vSphere 6.7 to 7.0 U3. Click on Firts Icon -> to Assign License.Do the same for ESXi Host in Hosts Tab if you want to assign License to ESXi Host. Under Assets Tab > Go to vCenter Server Systems (To Assign License to Virtual Center).Go to Licenses Option and and Click on Manage Your Assets under Getting Started tab.Step#2 - Assign License to Virtual Center Now let's move to Step#2 to Assign Licenses.

Label the license keys as per your convinient.


