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Viewing Licensing Information
You can view the licensing state of the vSphere environment from a central place by using the
license management functionality in the vSphere Client or the vSphere Web Client. You can view the
licenses that are available in vSphere, current license assignments and usage, available license
capacity, licensed features in use, and so on.
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Generating Reports for License Use in the vSphere Web Client
You can track the license use of your vSphere environment by generating reports for the license use
of assets for a certain time period. Assets are hosts, vCenter Server systems, vSAN clusters, and
solutions.
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Synchronizing Licenses with Your My VMware Account
With vSphere 6.5 and later, VMware starts offering the Synchronize Licenses feature that you can
use to import license keys and license key data from My VMware to your vSphere environment.
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vCenter Server Domain Repoint License Considerations
Domain repointing copies license keys to a new domain. Copying the license keys ensures that valid
licensing of all assets is maintained after repointing.
Licensing Terminology and Definitions
The licensing system in vSphere uses specific terminology and definitions to refer to different licensing-
related objects.
License Key A license key encodes details about the product it is associated with, the
license expiration date, the license capacity, and other information. The
license key is assigned to an object to activate the functionality of its
associated product.
License A container for a license key of a VMware product. To use a license key,
you create a license object in the vSphere Web Client or the
vSphere Client, and insert the license key into the license. After the license
is created, you can assign it to assets.
Product Edition A set of specific features that are associated with a unique license key.
When assigned, the license key unlocks the features in the product edition.
Examples of product editions are vSphere Enterprise, vSphere Standard,
vCenter Server Essentials, and so on.
Feature Enabled or disabled functionality by a license that is associated with a
specific product edition. Examples of features are vSphere DRS, vSphere
vMotion, and vSphere High Availability.
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