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4 The host license key belongs to two separate license inventories. If the total assignment of the key exceeds

the key's capacity, this scenario is not supported and causes your license use to be out of compliance.

Example: Linked Mode Scenario

1 You have two vCenter Server instances that belong to the same Linked Mode group.

2 You assign a license to a host in one vCenter Server instance.

3 The two vCenter Server instances share a single license inventory.

4 When you add a license key, the key becomes available to all the vCenter Server systems within the same

Linked Mode group. The license keys are shared, and each system in the group has the same inventory

view, although this might not always seem so because of replication delays.

License Management Permissions

You can control which users can view and manage license resources.

The following permission types are supported.

Global.Licenses

If you have global permission at the root folder, you can view and modify all

licenses in the vCenter Server inventory. This permission includes other

vCenter Server systems in a Linked Mode group.

Read-only

If you have read-only permission on a host, the vCenter Server displays the

first and last five characters of the license key assigned to the host, the features

present in the license, and the expiration date for the license.

If you have neither of these permissions but you have the permission to add a host to vCenter Server, you can

add a license to the inventory and assign a license to the host when you perform the add host operation.

About the License Portal

Use the license portal to get upgraded license keys, downgrade license keys, combine the capacity of multiple

license keys, divide the capacity of a single license key, view the change history of your license keys, and find

lost license keys.

Getting Upgraded License Keys

If you have VMware Infrastructure 3 license keys and you have upgrades to vSphere 4.1 or later, use the license

portal to retrieve the new license keys and deactivate the old licenses. After you retrieve the license keys, add

them to the vCenter Server license inventory.

Downgrading License Keys

If you have license keys for vSphere 5.0, but you need to license VMware Infrastructure 3 or vSphere 4.x assets,

use the license portal to downgrade the license keys. When you downgrade the license keys, the vSphere 5.0

license keys remain valid. When you are ready to upgrade your assets, you can stop using the VMware

Infrastructure or vSphere 4.x licenses and start using the vSphere 5.0 license keys by adding them to the vCenter

Server license inventory and assigning them to your upgraded assets.

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