vSphere 7 Free Licence Key invalid?

[RedDragon0353]

Hey everyone!

I'm having issues assigning my free licence to my vSphere installation. I am copying the code directly from the license information as pictured below, and I installed using the ISO in the picture below. When I do attempt to add the licence, I am asked to provide a valid licence key.

Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?

Cheers

[e_espinel]

Hello.
The license you show is for an ESXi host, it cannot be managed by a vCenter Server.
Could you show the screen when you try to enter the license.

[RedDragon0353]

[IRIX201110141]

I have seen in once in a lifetime that i was unable to assign a $payed license neither trough WebClient(vCenter) or Hostclient. I use the esxi commandline to assign my key. After that Host and WebClient was happy. IIRC it was a ESX 6.x host back in the time.

Regards,
Joerg

[Kinnison · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Sorry, but the screenshot it seems to me just the typical of the GUI of a host running ESXi version 8 not version 7.
If this is the case it is not possible to use a license for the previous version 7 with the current version 8 product.

Regards,
Ferdinando

[IRIX201110141]

Thats a good catch. I thought it was a linux browser with an ugly font selection.

[Kinnison]

Hi,

Nope, IMHO it's really a "ugly" font selection. 😂

Regard,
Ferdinando

[RedDragon0353]

Ah yes, on closer inspection it is indeed ESXi v8.

I have no idea why the page gave me a ESXi v7 code with an ESXi v8 ISO.

Thanks for the help! Now I gotta figure out how to get a ESXi v7 iso file, and reinstall everything

[Kinnison]

Hi,

Sorry, You should be able to request the "free" license for ESXi version 8.0 that you already have installed instead of reinstalling version 7 from scratch.

Regards,
Ferdinando

[RedDragon0353]

Yep, was able to re-register and get a licence key for ESXi 8. Thanks everyone for your help, all working now