Accept the VMware end-user license agreement and enter the license key by using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle or deploy products that support evaluation mode without a license key.
Installing VMware Aria Suite products included in a VVF or VCF bundle
If you have the VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) bundle, VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle is included and you can use it to deploy VMware Aria Suite products.
The
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) bundle includes a
VCF Solution license that is applied on the
vCenter cloud account and affects
VMware Aria Suite product licensing as follows:
- If no VMware Aria Suite products have been previously deployed, products in the bundle are deployed in evaluation mode. When a vCenter cloud account with the VCF Solution license is added, the VMware Aria Suite products detect the license on the vCenter and that unlocks licensing on all products in the bundle.
- If VMware Aria Suite products have been previously deployed, you can choose to apply existing licenses. However if a vCenter cloud account with a VCF Solution license is detected, VCF Solution licensing overrides any existing licenses.
Note: After unlocking the products with a VCF or VVF single license and exiting the licensing procedure, you must initiate an inventory sync to ensure that the most up-to-date data is synchronized with
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. See
Inventory synchronization in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.
Evaluation mode
If you want to deploy a VMware Aria Suite product without a license key, see the the following table for the products and versions that support evaluation mode.
| Product | Version |
|---|---|
| VMware Aria Automation | 8.16.1 or later |
| VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator | Not applicable because deployment is typically integrated with VMware Aria Automation or vCenter. |
| VMware Aria Automation Config | Not supported in evaluation mode. Requires a product license. |
| VMware Aria Operations | 8.16.0 or later |
| VMware Aria Operations for Logs | 8.16.0 or later |
| VMware Aria Operations for Networks | 6.12.1 or later |
Using the installation wizard, the procedure to deploy a product in evaluation mode differs depending upon whether you are deploying a single product or multiple products:
- If deploying a single product, you select the option to deploy the product without a license key.
- When deploying multiple products some of which require licenses, you select the license that is suitable for each specific product. Other products can use the same license if applicable, otherwise they will be deployed in evaluation mode.
Procedure
Perform the following steps to configure licensing.
- Read the end-user license agreement, select I agree to the terms and conditions, and click Next.
- Select an option to deploy in evaluation mode or enter license keys.
- If you want to deploy a single product in evaluation mode, no license key is required. Click Next.
- If selecting the license keys from the locker, click Select to open the list of licenses which are applicable to the selected products and versions. If not, select all the keys available from the listing.
- If adding a new license key to the locker, click Add.
- Click Validate to validate the license. If multiple license keys are available for a product, you must choose one license per product selected for the deployment.
You can now view the applicable license keys. Next steps are not available until all the products deployed have appropriate licenses.
Note: Valid product licenses are displayed in
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. License validation does not check the functionality allowed by the licenses themselves.
