


I am going to show you one of the most common issues I have seen when updating and expired VMware vCenter server license and how to fix it. It should be as easy as just grabbing the vCenter license key and plopping it in to VMware vCenter, but sometimes it is not. Hopefully we only forget to update our vSphere licenses in development and test environments, since it is in the have verification testing for plans for production environments, right? This means your vCenter server license expires on day 61 if you forgot to enter the vCenter license key at the time of deployment. Remember, the vCenter license that comes with VMware vSphere, the vCenter Server evaluation license, lasts 60 days, as do the other VMware evaluation licenses. Sometimes we are in a hurry when installing a vSphere environment and forget little things like entering license keys, especially the vCenter license key.
