Aria Operations and view for esxi with eval licenses

[Joy Mamer]

PowerCli can track if an esxi host is using a real or eval license. Has anyone found a way to do this as a property in Aria Operations (v8.18)? It be great to have it as a column on an esxi view. I checked the overall properties and could not find a property.

Get-VMHost | Select-Object Name, @{N="License"; E={$_.LicenseData.Name}}, @{N="EvalMode"; E={$_.LicenseData.IsEval}} | Export-Csv -Path "C:\temp\HostLicenses.csv" -NoTypeInformation

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[shashikrishnak]

I tried to create a view in VMware Aria Operations, but it is only showing License Product Name as "VMware ESX Server".

Under Metrics and Properties, it is not displaying any detailed license information.

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[Joy Mamer]

I saw that there were no properties for licenses other than Product Name. Seems really odd there hasn't been development to pull in the key and usage.

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[shashikrishnak]

Agree, let's see if anyone has any other solution. Thanks!

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[snapfriend]

Hello

There is an option to see ESXi version license option using Aria

In ESXi metrics, you can search for 

Summary -> vSphere Tags

It will be having license information & you can use it in Dashboard to get a visibility of such licenses count

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[shashikrishnak]

Tried to create a View and this is what I see:



Went to host metric directly and this is what I see:

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[shashikrishnak]

Tried to create a View and this is what I see:



Went to host metric directly and this is what I see:

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[snapfriend]

Hello

Yes. You are correct. I also checked in my VCF HOL lab & I am not seeing the required metric. I found below article from VMware which is mentioning about this issue. Please go through with it for more information...

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/421414/aria-operations-fails-to-detect-or-displ.html

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