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Hi All,

Hopefully an easy one for someone to answer off for me as not something I have done before.

We have a host we need to apply a difference license to via vcenter administration licensing as it had the wrong key applied when it was built, however to complicate matters the host in question runs the vcenter appliance itself on its own as a vm.

We have the new license available on the vcenter licensing page to apply to the host.

However the query I have is if this can be done live with the vcenter appliance running on that host in question or if we need to power down the vm if we do have to how do we reassign the license?

It is a standalone host not in a cluster (but is managed by vcenter which runs on itself as an appliance).

Both new key and current key have the same amount of cpus and version e.g. standard vsphere 6.

hope I have explained that well enough.

Cheers,

Lee

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However the query I have is if this can be done live with the vcenter appliance running on that host in question or if we need to power down the vm if we do have to how do we reassign the license?

It can be done live without problem since you're applying the same edition of vSphere. Some cases where you need to assign a lower edition may require some downtime, but only if you're using features from the higher edition which will not be available on the lower edition. But, yes, go ahead and assign the new license to the host.

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However the query I have is if this can be done live with the vcenter appliance running on that host in question or if we need to power down the vm if we do have to how do we reassign the license?

It can be done live without problem since you're applying the same edition of vSphere. Some cases where you need to assign a lower edition may require some downtime, but only if you're using features from the higher edition which will not be available on the lower edition. But, yes, go ahead and assign the new license to the host.

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Richardson Porto
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if you are going to change the host  License . it does not need down time and no need to shutdown your VM.

If you attempt to assign a license that has insufficient capacity or does not support the features that the host uses, the license assignment fails.

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Randhir

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Hi All,

Thanks very much for the advice, I have applied the new license to the host and was able to get that on without any interruption to the running machine all sorted.

cheers

Lee

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