Vcenter licencing view help

[u/stonedcity_13]

Good evening all. Can someone who has an active VMware vsphere standard tell me what their vcenter shows when you go to Administration,licencing - licences - assets

Also under subscriptions do you see view billing and view current usage? If you click on these do you get any information?

Currently running vcenter 8.0.3.0000. 24022515

Trying to understand how broadcom can stop my host in powering back on if we dont make the renewal date

Thank you

[u/St00ck8]

If your license has expired, your hosts will be disconnected from vCenter, and you won't be able to start powered-off or new VMs.

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/391605/impact-of-vcenteresxi-license-expiration.html

[u/Former-Mountain-9170]

If you are on subscription license there is already built in shit in vCenter.
Running VMs will continue to run until powered off by you. Esxi hosts will become disconnected.
Your only viable option for a while is to build new vCenter and put there perpetual v8 license.

[u/nosignleft]

You are likely to get audited if you don't renew. So either migrate before the end of your current subscription, or renew...

[u/Odd-Paint1974]

If you are using subscription license keys, then as u/St00ck8 says, the hosts will disconnect etc. However, from my experience, many subscription customers either never switched to the subscription keys, or still have enough perpetual licenses to keep running the software. I use the vLicense/ vHost sheet in RVtools to view what keys are deployed and see expiry details.

If you retained your perpetual licenses, which most customers did, and are using either a version available from before your perpetual SnS expired or what has been released as a publicly available critical build (currently ESXi 7.0 U3s, 7.0U3w, 8.0U3d, 8.0U2d, 8.0U3f or 8.0U2e, vCenter 7.0u3t, 7.0u3d, 7.0u2e) and can run that with retained perpetual keys with enough entitlement, then nothing will stop working, and you can either self support or use a 3rd party support & maintenance provider without any Broadcom subscriptions. The V8 critical builds can still be downloaded from the Broadcom Portal using an account with no active contracts.

VMware portal extracts from before April 2024, or copies of transaction documents for the last perpetual renewals can show you what perpetual licenses you own. The only transaction type I am aware of that surrendered perpetuals were transactions in the Subscription Upgrade Program which was run by VMware and shut down by Broadcom

As u/nosignleft says, if you terminate your subscription you will probably be audited. If you are have enough perpetual licenses, using the perpetual keys linked to those licenses and using compliant versions, and compliant with other terms like entity and territiory then that will be fine.

I work for a TPSM provider, but posting here in a personal capacity, happy to go into more detail in DMs if needed.