VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.16

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Accept EULA and configure license

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.
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.
  1. Read the end-user license agreement, select
    I agree to the terms and conditions
    , and click
    Next
    .
  2. 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
      .
  3. 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.
Valid product licenses are displayed in
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
. License validation does not check the functionality allowed by the licenses themselves.

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