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What to do next
Provide licensing information for the vRealize Operations for Horizon solution. See Adding a vRealize
Operations for Horizon License Key.
Adding a vRealize Operations for Horizon License Key
After you install the vRealize Operations for Horizon solution, you must add a
vRealize Operations for Horizon license key in the vRealize Operations Manager user interface.
vRealize Operations for Horizon is not functional until it is licensed.
Note You must also add a license key for vRealize Operations Manager.
You can have an evaluation license key or a product license key for vRealize Operations for Horizon. The
evaluation license key (eval) provides 60 days of unlimited product use. A product license key is
encoded with an expiration date and a license count.
The vRealize Operations for Horizon license is required to use the vRealize Operations for Horizon. To
retrieve the vRealize Operations for Horizon license key, go to http://my.vmware.com.In addition to the
vRealize Operations for Horizon license, you also require the vRealize Operations Manager license key.
Note The descriptions of the two licenses are very similar.
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The vRealize Operations for Horizon license type is Concurrent User (CCU). The
vRealize Operations Manager license type is Virtual Machine (VM).
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The Horizon View Enterprise license key also serves as the vRealize Operations for Horizon license
key .
To add your vRealize Operations for Horizon license key, select Administration > Licensing in the
vRealize Operations Manager user interface and add your license key to VMware Horizon Solution on
the License Keys tab.
For detailed information about adding license keys, see Add a vRealize Operations Manager License
Key.
If your vRealize Operations for Horizon license key expires, the vRealize Operations for Horizon adapter
stops populating vRealize Operations Manager with data. If you have a valid license key but you exceed
the license count, vRealize Operations Manager generates alerts and a watermark appears on certain
dashboards. The Horizon adapter does not restrict data when the license count is exceeded.
Associate Horizon Objects with Your
vRealize Operations for Horizon License Key
You must associate Horizon objects with your vRealize Operations for Horizon license key by editing
license groups in vRealize Operations Manager.
A license group is a way to gather certain objects, called license group members, under a particular
license key. By default, the objects are categorized as follows:
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