I am trying to license a standalone ESXi instance for ESXi 7.0 Standard. We purchased
License key(s) for VMware vSphere 8 Standard for 1 processor (VS8-STD-C)
and downgraded to 7. Yet, when trying to apply that license, I get "Please provide a valid license key".
What am I doing wrong??? Do I need a different license?
How you down grade from 8 to 7
you can remove or edit license.cfg file
Or simply copy the code below and paste it into your SSH session.
rm -r /etc/vmware/license.cfg
cp /etc/vmware/.#license.cfg /etc/vmware/license.cfg
/etc/init.d/vpxa restart
Did you downgrade the ESXi license to a v7.x license in your Customer Connect portal, and can you confirm that the new license key has sufficient capacity to cover the number of sockets in the ESXi 7.0 host?
André
And it's resolved now 🙂
Just took time to do the actual downgrade.
I did not pay attention that it said - downgrade in progress.
So, eventually it issued a new license key, and that one worked absolutely fine.