Sharing subscriptions with other organizations
As an organization owner, you can share the following purchased subscriptions with other organizations.
Starting April 26, 2024, Subscription Manager will no longer support sharing subscriptions with other organizations.
- Verify that you are an organization owner and have purchased at least any VMware vRealize Cloud Universal, VMware Aria Universal Suite, and VMware Aria Operations for Network Universal (Core) subscriptions.
- Verify that the secondary organization you want to share your subscription with does not share subscriptions with another primary organization and does not currently have any active VMware vRealize Cloud Universal, VMware Aria Universal Suite, or VMware Aria Operations for Network Universal (Core) subscriptions.
- The secondary organization must have a valid VMware billing account. The billing account can be removed from the secondary organization after the subscriptions are shared.
Shared subscriptions are limited to VMware vRealize Cloud Universal, VMware Aria Universal Suite, and VMware Aria Operations for Network Universal (Core).
If Tanzu Transformers, Tanzu Guardrails, or Tanzu Insights subscriptions are active and not shared with the secondary organization, both the primary and secondary organizations will continue with the sharing process.
- VMware vRealize Cloud Universal subscriptions
- VMware Aria Universal Suite subscriptions
- VMware Aria Operations for Networks Universal (Core) subscriptions
Periodically, the total consumption by the primary and secondary organizations is billed in the primary organization, based on your usage. Information about the subscription consumption of shared subscriptions is found on the
Aggregate
tab of the Cloud Universal
page of the primary organization.- Log in toVMware Aria Subscription, and then clickSubscriptions --> Share Subscriptions.Share Subscriptions has been deactivated.
- ClickShare Subscriptions.
- Select the secondary organization you want to share your subscriptions with and clickConfirm.You receive a message confirming that subscriptions are successfully shared with the selected organization.
You can view the list and status of shared subscriptions in the
Share Subscriptions
page of the primary organization. Any subscription share requests that are not completed in 24 hours are marked with the Warning
status. Contact VMware support for any subscription share requests that are not completed in this period. You can also view the details of the shared subscriptions from the Share Subscriptions
page of the secondary organization.On-premises licenses can be connected only to the primary organization. While sharing a subscription with a secondary organization, no new license is generated. Uploading usage data for on-premises licenses must be done in the primary organization.