Install Guide

License requirements for hosts and vCenter servers

The following are the licensing requirements for hosts and vCenter:

• You can purchase a license to support the quantity of Dell EMC servers to be managed by OMIVV. A license is used only after a host is

added to a connection prole. License is not associated with a particular server.

• One instance of OMIVV supports up to 10 instances of vCenter servers. There is no separate license for the number of vCenter

servers.

Buying and uploading software license

You are running a trial license until you upgrade to a full product version. Use the Buy License link from the product to navigate to the Dell

website and buy a license. After you buy it, upload it using the Administration Console.

About this task

NOTE: The Buy License option is displayed only if you are using a trial license.

Steps

1 In the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, perform one of the following tasks:

• In the Licensing tab, next to Software License, click Buy License.

• In the Getting Started tab, under Basic Tasks, click Buy License.

2 Save the license le to a known location that you had downloaded from the Dell Digital Locker.

3 In a web browser, type the Administration Console URL.

Use the format: https://<ApplianceIPAddress>

4 In the Administration Console login window, type the password and click Login.

5 Click Upload license.

6 In the Upload License window, to navigate to the license le, click Browse.

7 Select the license le, and then click Upload.

NOTE

: The license le might be packaged inside a .zip le. Ensure that you unzip the .zip le and upload only the license .xml

le. The license le is likely to be named based on your order number, such as 123456789.xml.

Options after uploading licenses

License le for new purchases

When you place an order for purchasing a new license, an email is sent from Dell about the order conrmation, and you can download the

new license le from the Dell Digital Locker at Dell Digital Locker. The license is in an .xml format. If the license is in a .zip format, extract

the license .xml le from the .zip le before uploading.

Stacking licenses

Starting from the OMIVV version 2.1, OMIVV can stack multiple standard licenses to increase the number of supported hosts to the sum of

the hosts in the uploaded licenses. An evaluation license cannot be stacked. The number of supported vCenter servers cannot be increased

by stacking and requires the use of multiple appliances.

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