With release 9.1 of vCloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation a new component called the License Server was released.

The License server is a dedicated protected repository within your environment used to keep licensing data. For each VCF Operations instance, we need to use at least one License Server.

Right after updating my VCF Operations instance to version 9.1, I saw a banner with the message: “Your registration needs to be updated with a license server. Go to Licenses & Registration page to update the VCF Operations registration and access the available licenses”, which means we need to deploy and connect a new License Server. In this article, I will cover this process.

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