Templates are added one at a time by right clicking on “Certificate Templates” and selecting New > Certificate Template to Issue. The only thing that expires is the service and support, which means no technical support and no upgrades. Typically the license, when purchased, is a permanent key.
#VSPHERE 6.5 LICENSE KEY APPLIED ERROR LICENSE EXPIRED FREE#
This is a fairly straightforward process accomplished using the Certification Authority Manager. If the license expires, it will reduce the feature set to the Free level, which means no clustering, no vMotion, no Distributed switch. I don’t think that I deviated from the KB article here except with the validity period. If you want to set up the VMCA as a subordinate certificate authority on a vSphere 6 Platform Services Controller, a slightly different type of certificate is required. On the Subject Name tab, ensure that “Supply in the request” is checked. You cannot type in the license key in the vSphere Client after the evaluation period has expired. It’s configured under the Request Handling tab. Disable VMware ESX is the warning message that is displayed when you open your VMware vSphere Client after the 60-day evaluation period has expired without typing in a new license key for your free VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5 install. I haven’t worked on View for some years but this option came in handy then. On the Extensions tab, although it’s possibly not required for vSphere 6 (it is for earlier versions of vSphere), I added “Client Authentication” under the Application Policies option.Īgain, it may not be universally required but I’ve added the “Signature is proof of origin” option under Key Usage (also on the Extensions tab.ĭepending on the use case required, it might be useful to be able to export a certificate’s private key.
My first task was to give the template a new name and set the validity to 4 years: Per the KB article, I duplicated the “Web Server” template as a starting point. This can be opened by running certtmpl.msc. To create it, we first need the Certificate Templates Console. Linux/mac host users, skip to next paragraph, nothing to see here. At that time Ill need a license key to be applied to the installation. Heres a one liner to reset the eval period: cp /etc/vmware/.license.cfg /etc/vmware/license.cfg & /etc/init.d/vpxa restartDownload ESXi. This template will provide certificates for ESXi hosts, vCenter, vRA, vRO etc. VMware Seven 7 ESXi License Key vSphere vCenter vSAN Enterprise. There is a KB article that covers this but I wanted to run through it and use some of the specifics for my lab. Having setup my lab’s PKI infrastructure previously, one of the next steps I needed to complete was to create a template for certificates for VMware’s products to use as they require certain properties to be present in the certificates used.