From the course: VMware vSphere 8 Certified Technical Associate - Data Center Virtualization (VCTA-DCV) (1V0-21.20) Cert Prep

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Demo: Licensing vCenter and ESXi

Demo: Licensing vCenter and ESXi

- [Rick] In this video, I'll demonstrate how to apply license keys to a vSphere eight environment. Specifically, we are going to be licensing vCenter and licensing our ESXI hosts with the Enterprise Plus licensing edition. So here you can see I am logged into my vSphere client, and I'm going to go ahead and click on the little menu here with the three bars at the top left, I think they usually call that a hamburger icon. Anyhow, I'm going to click on that little icon and I'm going to go to administration. And under administration we can see licenses. And this is where I'm going to add my vCenter standard license and my vSphere Enterprise Plus license. So I'll just click on add here, and you're not going to be able to see my license keys because I'm going to blur them, but I'm going to paste in two different license keys, one on each line. The first license key is going to be for vCenter Server eight, and the second…

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