After Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, our shared goal is to focus and invest in on-premises products as published in earlier blog posts by Krish Prasad and Rick Walsworth.
vSphere+ customers who have connected their vCenter servers to the Cloud Console are encouraged to migrate from SaaS to on-premises deployments to benefit from our product investments and roadmap.
This article helps vSphere+ customers disconnect their vCenter Servers and apply their license keys.
To support customers to remove vSphere+ capabilities in brownfield deployments and move vSphere environment to termed license mode.
The proposed solution is to disconnect the vCenter from the GW/Cloud and remove the subscription so that the customer can apply license keys. А vCenter API is available for this.
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Steps:
1. Obtain the necessary license keys for virtual infrastructure licensing after unsubscribing. (The system will transition into an unlicensed state, and to avert any potential side effects, the process of applying the license keys must remain streamlined. Therefore, it is advised that the customer possesses the keys in advance.).
Note: The keys will be available on the Broadcom Support Portal under "My Entitlements".
2. Prepare for maintenance and possible downtime.
3. Power off the GW to sever the connection from GW to vCenter. This will prevent automatic re-subscription from the GW.
4. Download the attached delete-subscription.sh file from the attachments section of the iKB.
5. Execute the application of license keys to all assets within the virtual environment from the vCenter H5C UI.
The assignment of the new licenses should happen in this order:
6. Delete the GW VM. Do not power it back on.
7. Script will only remove the subscription of vCenter Server with vSphere+. We will need to manually remove all the CloudGateway service accounts (with prefix: CloudServicesGateway) from vCenter Server.
Please Note:
Workaround:
In case of failure, follow below steps,