Enter the number of licenses you want to redeem and click Next.Unused licenses are not automatically distributed, and licensing can occur without an external connection.

Single Host – Created license files are stored on individual VMware ESX hosts. This model simplifies license administration by allowing allocation and re-allocation of licenses from a single location. Unused license keys are released to the pool, becoming available again to any hosts. When a host requires a particular licensed functionality, the license key for that functionality is temporarily checked out from the license pool.

The license server manages an entire license pool, making licenses available to one or more hosts. Select the appropriate licensing model and click Next.Ĭentralized License Server – A single license file holding your licenses is stored on a license server.To generate and retrieve your license files, follow this basic procedure on the Manage Licenses Page of the VI 3 License Portal : Activate Software Licenses by Generating License Files Try to provide the com-ports by connecting a usb-2-comports adapter to the VM and set3. Suggestion: forget about trying to assign com-ports to your VM.

When I wrote, that you can use up to 4 physical com-ports inside a VM, this applied to Workstation 4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 and 7 only.Īs far as I know versions later than 12.01 can use only one or two Com-ports and those ports MUST be real Com-ports.Īdditional ports supplied by a USB´- serial ports card/ adapter worked in the mentioned old versions only.ĪFAIK what you have in mind will not work at all with any of the recent versions - I assume that the documentation in case it still mentions up to 4 possible com-ports has just been copied over from the working good old versions and nobody ever checked if that part still applies nowadays. Please note that I wrote those instructions for Workstation 7. To configure more than one com-port you cant use the GUI !

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