Foundations only on trial version?

[Steve2point0]

Hello all,

  We are trying to evaluate vCenter Operations Manager for our environment. I have installed the OVA package, setup the servers, no real issues. However I can't seem to get any mode of licensing other than foundations. I downloaded the trial key, installed it through the licence manager in vCenter, I tried logging out and then back in and no love.

Any ideas? I'm not sure what I'm missing here.

Thank you kindly,

Steven

[ysandfort · Accepted solution]

Did you ASSIGN the license in the vCenter Server? Did you restart services or vApp afterwards?

[Alexander_Dimi1]

After you assign the license you can go to Admin UI / Status tab and hit Reload button.

No need to restart the services in this case.

Thanks,

Alex D.

[Steve2point0]

Thank you all, I did end up restarting the vApp and that displayed the advanced options. For some reason it doesn't display in the web client. I logged out and back in. Do I have to restart the vCenter server?

Thanks,

Steven

[jddias]

It is not necessary to restart the vApp or the services to get the license to apply - see this link for help.

http://www.storagegumbo.com/2013/01/vc-ops-why-wont-my-license-apply.html

As long as you can access the features for your edition, then your license is active regardless of what the Admin UI states.