In the VMware Aria Universal Suite page, you must activate your VMware Aria Universal Suite subscription licenses. After you activate your licenses, you can perform the available license actions.

Procedure

  1. To activate a VMware Aria Universal Suite subscription license, navigate to the VMware Aria Cloud dashboard, and then click Cloud Universal.
  2. Click Activate Subscription License.
  3. Select the check box to confirm that the VMware Aria Suite products are on the required patches to proceed.
  4. Select the plus (+) sign to add the license key details, and then click Validate. After the license key is validated, click ADD. Click Next.
    Note: The license key must be a VMware Aria Universal Suite subscription. When you add a new license, you can view the license key in the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Locker service.
  5. Select the Product Type and the Version values.
  6. Enter the FQDN/IP Address value.
  7. Based on the selected product, you can select Admin Password or Root Password.
  8. Select the check box to remove all the perpetual licenses from the selected product, if required.
  9. Click Validate & Add. When the validation is complete, click Next.
  10. In the Cloud Connection Details page, you have two options.
    • Automatically send subscription license consumption from your on-premises to VMware Aria Universal Suite. This check box allows you to send subscriptions to VMware Aria Subscription. If you select this check box, enter the API Token details.
    • Use VMware Aria Subscription subscription licenses with perpetual licenses. If you select this check box, enter your Associated MyVMware Account details.
    • If you select both the check boxes, you must enter the Network Proxy details.
  11. Click Next.
  12. Validate the details on the Summary page and then click Finish.

What to do next

You can track the request details on the Requests tab.