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Installing vFabric License Server and
Activating Your License
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5. Installing vFabric License Server and Activating Your
License
Before you install vFabric Suite components, you need to install vFabric License Server and activate your vFabric Suite license.
1. Install vFabric License Server. How and where you install the License Server depends on your environment:
• Install vFabric License Server on the same Windows machine on which you installed VMware vCenter Server.
• Install vFabric License Server on an EC2 instance that is running RHEL or on a physical machine that is running RHEL.
Because you do not install the License Server as an extension of the vCenter environment, this scenario is referred to
henceforth as installing vFabric License Server Standalone . This version of vFabric License Server is known as the
standalone License Server.
2. Activate your vFabric licenses.
3. Install individual vFabric Suite components (such as vFabric tc Server).
• If you are installing vFabric Suite components on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), you have two options: Use the yum
command to install from an RPM file in the vFabric RPM repository, or install from a ZIP or TAR file from the standard
VMware download Web site.
• If you are installing on another supported operating system (such as Windows), you install the vFabric components from
a package that you download from the VMware download Web site. If you install from a download page, the package
might be in a *.zip, *.tar, or *.exe format, depending on the component.
This chapter provides installation-related procedures for vFabric License Server and describes how to activate your vFabric Suite
license. For product installation instructions, see the documentation for a particular vFabric component.
Subtopics
Installing vFabric License Server on vCenter Server
RHEL Only: Install vFabric License Server Standalone
Activate vFabric Suite Licenses
Optionally Configure Computer to Track License Usage of OSS Components on RHEL
Upgrade vFabric License Server on vCenter Server
Uninstall vFabric License Server from vCenter Server
Uninstall Standalone vFabric License Server
Installing vFabric License Server on Your vCenter Server
If you are installing vFabric License Server into your existing vCenter environment, install it on the same Windows computer
that is running vCenter.
vFabric License Server requires a database to store and organize its data. The License Server fully supports using the database
system associated with vCenter Server to store its license data. However, VMware recommends that you create a separate
database instance for vFabric use so as to keep the data of the two products separate. (The term database instance refers to an
Oracle database schema or a Microsoft database.) You can also use a completely separate database system. In either case, you
must create an ODBC data source specifically for use by vFabric License Server, as described in the procedures that follow.
vFabric License Server supports Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database systems. In general, the supported versions of each
database system are the same as those supported by vCenter Server.