Access to certain Automation Orchestrator features is based on the license applied to your Automation Orchestrator deployment.

After authentication, your Automation Orchestrator instance is assigned a license based on the license edition of the authentication provider. Licenses control access to the following Automation Orchestrator features:

  • Git integration
  • Role management
  • Multi-language support (Python, Node.js, and PowerShell)

You can view the details of your currently applied license, such as the license expiry date, by logging in to to the Automation Orchestrator Client, navigating to Administration > Licensing and selecting the Overview tab. To manually change the license of the Automation Orchestrator deployment, select the Manual License tab.

Core Automation Orchestrator operations such as running workflows, actions, scheduling tasks, and ruinnig policies are restricted and connot be started if your Automation Orchestrator deployment does not have a valid license entitlement. In such a scenario, operations intiated by users will fail.

Note: There is no limit to the number of Automation Orchestrator deployments to which you can apply the same license, regardless of the license type. For VMware Aria Automation licenses, having a deployed and configured VMware Aria Automation environment is not required.
Authentication Current licensing Legacy licensing Git Integration Role management Multi-language support
vSphere

VMware vSphere Standard

VMware vSphere Foundation

vSphere

vCloud Suite Standard

 No No No
vSphere Manually added VMware Cloud Foundation license

VMware Aria Automation

VMware Aria Suite Advanced or Enterprise

vCloud Suite Advanced or Enterprise

 Yes Yes Yes
VMware Aria Automation VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware Aria Automation

VMware Aria Suite Advanced or Enterprise

vCloud Suite Advanced or Enterprise

 Yes Roles are managed from the VMware Aria Automation instance used to authenticate Automation Orchestrator. Yes
Note: Legacy licenses such as vSphere and VMware Aria Automation continue to be valid. However, if your deployment is uses a VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware vSphere Foundation license, the older licence becomes irrelevant.

You will receive a notification message in your Automation Orchestrator Client when there is a upcoming change to your licenses, such as a license expiry. In case your license expires, you will have a set grace period of 60 days during which you must renew your license or risk losing access to Automation Orchestrator functionality.