Add-on licenses require a primary license on the vCenter instance
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- Kind
- Prerequisite
- Statement
- Add-on Licenses Included in Your VCF Subscription (VCF 9.1): "To be able to use an add-on license, you must first assign a primary license to your vCenter instances." Add-ons "do not necessarily follow the same licensing model as VCF and vSphere Foundation"; from November 3, 2025 some VCF subscriptions also include a VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA license.
- Applies when
- Assigning vSAN, vDefend, Avi, Live Recovery or other add-on licenses in VCF 9.x.
- Applies to
- VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x, VMware vSphere Foundation 9.x add-ons
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