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Remove all expired licenses or licenses that you do not intend to assign. For example, if you have
upgraded, divided, or combined any licenses in My VMware, you must remove the old licenses from
the inventory.
View Available Licenses and Features About a Product
You can view information about a product, such as the available licenses, features, and license capacity in
the vSphere Web Client.
Prerequisites
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To view and manage licenses in the vSphere 6.0 environment, you must have the Global.Licenses
privilege on the vCenter Server system, where the vSphere Web Client runs.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, select Administration, and under Licensing, select Licenses.
2 Select Products.
3 In the table, select the product for which you want to view information.
4 To view the licenses that are available for the product, click the arrow next to the product name to
expand the row.
5 To view the licensed features for the product, click the View Features toolbar icon.
View the Features that an Asset Uses
You can view the features that an asset uses before you assign it a license. For example, if an ESXi host is in
evaluation mode, you can view which features the hosts uses and then assign an appropriate license to it.
Prerequisites
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To view and manage licenses in the vSphere 6.0 environment, you must have the Global.Licenses
privilege on the vCenter Server system, where the vSphere Web Client runs.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, select Administration, and under Licensing, select Licenses.
2 Select the Assets tab.
3 Select the vCenter Server systems, Hosts, Clusters or the Solutions option.
4 Select an asset and click the View Features in Use toolbar icon.
View the License Key of the License
In vSphere, a license holds a license key for a product. You can view the associated license key for every
license.
Prerequisites
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To view and manage licenses in the vSphere 6.0 environment, you must have the Global.Licenses
privilege on the vCenter Server system, where the vSphere Web Client runs.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client, select Administration, and under Licensing, select Licenses.
2 Select the Licenses tab.
3 In the table, select a license.
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