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Licensing of merged View Desk licenses

Hello all,

I am trying to connect two licences that have been merged to my cluster (2 ESXi hosts). At the moment 100VMs are licensed and the license key is assigned to both assets (ESX 1 and 2).

Another license for 10 machines has been merged by VMware. The problem is that I am not able to assign both license keys to the assets. Only one license key is accepted by choosing a radio button. That means that I can only configure the license for 100 or 10 View Desktops.

Is there an option / configuration for this?

Thank you in advance!

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mittim12
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You would have to go into your "MY VMware" and merge the two license keys into 1 key with 110 machines.   Then add that key into the vCenter,  assign it to the two host, and remove the old keys.   If you don't have access to the licenses in "MY VMware"   then you would have to get someone who does to merge them into one key.

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Linjo
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Is this the vSphere Desktop license or the Horizon View license?

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Hi Linjo!

The product description ist 'vSphere 5 for Desktop'. In the list of merged products is no 'Horizon View Key', only the vShield Endpoint 5 Key that I assigned successfully (100+10).

Mario

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mittim12
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If I read this correctly you are talking about the licensing of the host running the workloads?      That licenses information is added into vCenter and then allocated to the host via vCenter.       

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Yes, its about the hosts running the workoads of the virtual machines. Problem is, that it is only possible to connect one asset (host) with one license.

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You would have to go into your "MY VMware" and merge the two license keys into 1 key with 110 machines.   Then add that key into the vCenter,  assign it to the two host, and remove the old keys.   If you don't have access to the licenses in "MY VMware"   then you would have to get someone who does to merge them into one key.

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virtualDesk
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Ok, will try that! Have no access, but will find someone who has.

Thanks a lot!

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