There have been a number of queries recently in relation to licensing of the VSA with the 5.1 release. The VSA has a number of different licensing models depending on how it was obtained. In many cases, if you check your vSphere licenses via the vCenter License Administration view, you might observe that the VSA asset is reported as not licensed, in evaluation or expired.

So where do you check if you have a valid license for the VSA?As per KB article 2040217, the fact that the license is not reported in the ‘Manage vSphere Licenses’ in vCenter is a known issue and is cosmetic. This can be safely ignored if a valid license entitling the user to use the vSphere Storage Appliance is applied.

To verify the license that VSA is actually using, click on the ‘about‘ dialog in VSA manager. This is located in the lower right hand corner of the VSA Manager view, and is a link detailing the VSA version (vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1.1.0 as shown below). Click on it, and it will bring up details of the VSA, including the licensing details, shown here:

The Unity virtual storage appliance is a software defined storage platform bringing the software intelligence of Unity arrays to your existing storage infrastructure. The Unity VSA is ideal for remote office and branch offices (ROBO) as well as hardware consolidation and IT staging and testing.

Unity; Licenses Licenses. Licensing and Payments. Can I combine content from my school with my home Personal Edition? How do I activate my Educational license on. This video show how fully automated build a customized emcstorage unity vsa on vmware workstation. UnityVSA License Installation Guide. Return to the License dialog in the Configuration Wizard, and click Install License File. Locate the license file, select it, and click Upload to install and activate it. Note: Do not repeat this procedure once you have saved the license and received the confirmation email. By default no virtual disk is availble to Unity VSA. Step 10: Go to UnityVSA VM settings from vSphere client and add virtual disk as per your requirement. Step 11: Virtual added to UnityVSA will immediately appear in the tier assignment area. Click in Storage tier and select a tier from drop-down list.

Dell Unity Vsa License

As you can see, this VSA is licensed for Essentials Plus. Therefore, you should base your VSA licensing on what the VSA Manager tells you and not what vCenter tells you.

Unity Vsa License Key

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