Hello. VMware vSphere standard paid licenses never expire, what expires is the subscription and support contract that is sold with the license the first time and can be renewed.
If you are using a Demo license or signed up for a VMware vSphere evaluation, you have 60 days of usage, after this time if the VMs are turned off you will not be able to turn them back on and some features will be disabled.
In recent years VMware offers term licenses (one, two or three years) that in certain cases can be renewed. These licenses indicate an expiration date
Enrique Espinel Senior Technical Support on IBM, Lenovo, Veeam Backup and VMware vSphere. VSP-SV, VTSP-SV, VTSP-HCI, VTSP Please mark my comment as Correct Answer or assign Kudos if my answer was helpful to you, Thank you. Пожалуйста, отметьте мой комментарий как Правильный ответ или поставьте Кудо, если мой ответ был вам полезен, Спасибо.
Like e_espinel wrote your license will never expire. It's your support subscription which will expire, but you will not face any message in vCenter about it. If you use cloud services like Skyline, you will no longer have access to it.
Keep in mind, that when your support subscription is expired, you will no longer have access to newer product version, so you are not able to upgrade your vSphere 6.x to vSphere 7.x keys for example.
Hello. VMware vSphere standard paid licenses never expire, what expires is the subscription and support contract that is sold with the license the first time and can be renewed.
If you are using a Demo license or signed up for a VMware vSphere evaluation, you have 60 days of usage, after this time if the VMs are turned off you will not be able to turn them back on and some features will be disabled.
In recent years VMware offers term licenses (one, two or three years) that in certain cases can be renewed. These licenses indicate an expiration date
Enrique Espinel Senior Technical Support on IBM, Lenovo, Veeam Backup and VMware vSphere. VSP-SV, VTSP-SV, VTSP-HCI, VTSP Please mark my comment as Correct Answer or assign Kudos if my answer was helpful to you, Thank you. Пожалуйста, отметьте мой комментарий как Правильный ответ или поставьте Кудо, если мой ответ был вам полезен, Спасибо.
Like e_espinel wrote your license will never expire. It's your support subscription which will expire, but you will not face any message in vCenter about it. If you use cloud services like Skyline, you will no longer have access to it.
Keep in mind, that when your support subscription is expired, you will no longer have access to newer product version, so you are not able to upgrade your vSphere 6.x to vSphere 7.x keys for example.
