Licenses; Information About Licenses - Cisco Nexus 1000V Troubleshooting Manual

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Licenses

This chapter describes how to identify and resolve problems related to licenses, and includes the
following sections.
• Information About Licenses, page 4-1
• Prerequisites to License Troubleshooting, page 4-2
• Problems with Licenses, page 4-3
• License Troubleshooting Commands, page 4-4

Information About Licenses

The name for the Cisco Nexus 1000V license package is NEXUS1000V_LAN_SERVICES_PKG. By
default, 16 licenses are installed with the VSM. These default licenses are valid for 60 days. You can
purchase permanent licenses that do not expire.
Licensing is based on the number of CPU sockets on the ESX servers attached as VEMs to the VSM.
A module is either licensed or unlicensed.
Licensed module—A VEM is licensed if it acquires licenses for all of its CPU sockets from the pool
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of available licenses installed on the VSM.
Unlicensed module—A VEM is unlicensed if it does not acquire licenses for all of its CPU sockets
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from the pool of available licenses installed on the VSM.
If a VEM is unlicensed, the virtual Ethernet ports corresponding to the virtual machines (VMs) are
kept down, and are shown as unlicensed.
Note The server administrator has no information about VEM licenses. The VEM licensed state must be
communicated to server administrators so they are aware that vEthernet interfaces on unlicensed
modules cannot pass traffic.
For additional information about licensing, including how to purchase or install a license, or how to
remove an installed license, see the Cisco Nexus 1000V License Configuration Guide, Release
4.2(1)SV2(1.1).
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