Licensing Product Name of esxi host

[bravestar83]

Hi all!

How do i get the licensing information for a specific host using powercli.

From vCenter it is simple enough host -> configure -> Licensing 

I'm specifically looking from product name.

using 

$vmh = Get-VMHost -Name ”vmhost”

$vmh.ExtensionData.config.product

Returns

Name : VMware ESXi
FullName : VMware ESXi 7.0.3 build-21686933
Vendor : VMware, Inc.
Version : 7.0.3
PatchLevel : 0.90
Build : 21686933
LocaleVersion : INTL
LocaleBuild : 000
OsType : vmnix-x86
ProductLineId : embeddedEsx
ApiType : HostAgent
ApiVersion : 7.0.3.0
InstanceUuid :
LicenseProductName : VMware ESX Server
LicenseProductVersion : 7.0

You would think LicenseProductName is what im looking for but it does not match what is showing in vcenter which is "vSphere 7 Enterprise Plus"

Any help would be appreciated

[LucD]

There are quite a few threads in this community on that subject.
For example
Solved: Re: Unable to get License Info from multiple vCent... - VMware Technology Network VMTN

Re: Fetch ESXi license name & expiration date with... - VMware Technology Network VMTN

A search should produce more examples

[Dharzhak · Accepted solution]

The license information is largely separate from the VMHost object. It's queried from the vCenter License Manager service as the links provided by @LucD show. The "Product Name" is actually the Name property of the license object. A super quick way to query the license your host is using is this way:

> $VIConnection = Connect-VIServer -Server $VIServer -Credential $ViCreds
> $VMHostObj = Get-VMHost -Name "vmhost"
> $LicenseMgr = Get-View $VIConnection.ExtensionData.Content.LicenseManager
> $LicenseMgr.Licenses | Where-Object {$_.LicenseKey -eq $VMHostObj.LicenseKey}

LicenseKey : JUST0-SOME0-RANDM-TEXT0-CHARS
EditionKey : esx.enterprisePlus.cpuPackageCoreLimited
Name : vSphere 7 Enterprise Plus
Total : 18
Used : 12
CostUnit : cpuPackage:32core
Properties : {LicenseInfo, ProductName, ProductVersion, FileVersion...}
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(The license key is fake for obvious reasons.)

[bravestar83]

Thank you so much! This worked perfectly

[bravestar83]

If anyone is ever interested here is a complete script that exports to csv

$vCenter = Connect-VIServer -Server <vcenter> -User "<username>" -Password "<password>"

$export = @()

$VMHostObj = Get-VMHost

foreach($vmhost in $VMHostObj){

    $LicenseMgr = Get-View $vCenter.ExtensionData.Content.LicenseManager

    $DispL = $LicenseMgr.Licenses | Where-Object {$_.LicenseKey -eq $vmhost.LicenseKey} | Select-Object Name, LicenseKey

    $LicInfo = New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property ([ordered]@{"Host"=$vmhost;"Type"=$DispL.Name;"Key"=$DispL.LicenseKey;})

    $export += $LicInfo

}

$export | Export-Csv -Path "<path>\list.csv" -NoTypeInformation