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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade

6. Verify the password.

There is no need to upload a license for trial version of the Dell Management Plug-in. The trial

version comes with a one host built-in license. To manage more hosts, or upgrade from trial to

managing more hosts, upload the new license following below steps:

7. Click Upload License.

8. To navigate to the license file, click Browse.

For example, the license file name is LicenseConfig.xml.asc. This license file is found at the

same location as the setup.exe.

9. To import the license file, click Upload.

NOTE: If the license file is modified or edited in any way, the license file will not work.

Updating the appliance

This section talks about the mechanics of updating the Dell Management Plug-in virtual appliance to

latest available version.

Updating appliance using the Administration Portal

Starting from version 1.0.1 of the Dell Management Plug-in, the APPLIANCE MANAGEMENT page of the

Administration Portal contains an APPLIANCE UPDATE section for updating the virtual appliance. If you

have version 1.0 of the Dell Management Plug-in virtual appliance, read updating to the new OVF.

As shown below, the APPLIANCE UPDATE section shows the current version of the appliance, the

available version of the appliance at a given update, the repository path, and a default repository

reference.