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The evaluation period is 60 days and begins when you turn on the ESXi host. At any time during the 60-day
evaluation period, you can convert from licensed mode to evaluation mode. The time available in the
evaluation period is decreased by the time already used.
For example, suppose that you use an ESXi host in evaluation mode for 20 days and then assign a
vSphere Standard Edition license key to the host. If you set the host back in evaluation mode, you can
explore the entire set of features for the host for the remaining evaluation period of 40 days.
For information about managing licensing for ESXi hosts, see the vCenter Server and Host Management
documentation.
Applying Licenses After Upgrading to ESXi 6.0
After you upgrade to ESXi 6.0, you must apply a vSphere 6.0 license.
When you upgrade ESXi 5.х hosts to ESXi 6.0 hosts, the hosts are in a 60-day evaluation mode period until
you apply the correct vSphere 6.0 licenses. See “About ESXi Evaluation and Licensed Modes,” on page 201.
You can upgrade your existing vSphere 5.x licenses or acquire vSphere 6.0 licenses from My VMware. After
you have vSphere 6.0 licenses, you must assign them to all upgraded ESXi 6.0 hosts by using the license
management functionality in the vSphere Web Client. See the vCenter Server and Host Management
documentation for details. If you use the scripted method to upgrade to ESXi 6.0, you can provide the
license key in the kickstart (ks) le.
Required Free Space for System Logging
If you used Auto Deploy to install your ESXi 6.0 host, or if you set up a log directory separate from the
default location in a scratch directory on the VMFS volume, you might need to change your current log size
and rotation seings to ensure that enough space is available for system logging .
All vSphere components use this infrastructure. The default values for log capacity in this infrastructure
vary, depending on the amount of storage available and on how you have congured system logging. Hosts
that are deployed with Auto Deploy store logs on a RAM disk, which means that the amount of space
available for logs is small.
If your host is deployed with Auto Deploy, recongure your log storage in one of the following ways:
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Redirect logs over the network to a remote collector.
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Redirect logs to a NAS or NFS store.
If you redirect logs to non-default storage, such as a NAS or NFS store, you might also want to recongure
log sizing and rotations for hosts that are installed to disk.
You do not need to recongure log storage for ESXi hosts that use the default conguration, which stores
logs in a scratch directory on the VMFS volume. For these hosts, ESXi 6.0 congures logs to best suit your
installation, and provides enough space to accommodate log messages.
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