This will give you another 60 day evaluation period.
Enter a valid license key from VMware into vCenter, which this article shows you how to do.Once your 60 day evaluation license has expired you have two options: One of the most common questions when dealing with an expired vCenter license is “How do I reset a vCenter evaluation license?”. How to Reset a VMware vCenter Evaluation License VMs will continue to run, but you won’t be able to create new VMs or reboot or power on VMs. When your licence expires, your hosts will disconnect to vCenter and you won’t be able to do anything. If you see this message, it is time to act before your license actually expires. VCenter is really good at letting you know that your licence is going to expire. The “There are Expired or Expiring licenses in Your Inventory” vCenter Message This lesson also applies to updating or assigning ESXi licenses, or vSAN licenses. 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. It should be as easy as just grabbing the vCenter license key and plopping it in to VMware vCenter, but sometimes it is not. Hopefully we only forget to update our vSphere licenses in development and test environments, since it is in the have verification testing for plans for production environments, right? This means your vCenter server license expires on day 61 if you forgot to enter the vCenter license key at the time of deployment. Remember, the vCenter license that comes with VMware vSphere, the vCenter Server evaluation license, lasts 60 days, as do the other VMware evaluation licenses.
Sometimes we are in a hurry when installing a vSphere environment and forget little things like entering license keys, especially the vCenter license key.
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