{"id":303,"date":"2020-02-25T21:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robinplomp.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2020-02-26T08:04:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T08:04:18","slug":"remove-vmware-horizon-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"How to remove a VMware Horizon license"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ljmaegmnepbgjekghdfkgegbckolmcok-featured\"<\/a>When you add a VMware Horizon license to an environment there is no \u201cbuild in\u201d
option to remove a license. <\/p>\n

You can imaging wanting to remove a POC or testing license once you move the environment from POC or
testing to production.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

To remove a VMware Horizon license you should first disable provisioning of new VM\u2019s.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \n

    Click Horizon Administrator<\/strong> > View Configuration > Servers<\/b>.<\/p>\n

  2. \n

    Select vCenter Server<\/b>.<\/p>\n

  3. \n

    Click Disable provisioning<\/b> and click OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Next we create a backup of the Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) database.  The tool vmdexport.exe can be found in,
    C:\\Program Files\\VMware\\VMware View\\Server\\tools\\bin\\<\/p>\n

    To backup the ADAM database execute the following command.<\/p>\n

    vdmexport.exe > vdmconfig.ldf<\/p>\n

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    Next we need to connect to the ADAM databse the remove the
    license. <\/p>\n

    On the VMware Horizon Connection Server open: Click Start<\/strong> >
    Administrative Tools<\/b> > ADSI Edit<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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      \n
    1. Select Select or type a Distinguished Name or Naming Context.\n
    2. In the field below Select or type a Distinguished Name or Naming Context, type:
      dc=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int\n
    3. Select Select or type a domain or server.\n
    4. In the field below Select or type a domain or server, type:
      localhost:389\n
    5. Click OK<\/b>.\n
    6. Click View ADAM Database [localhost:389]<\/b> to expand.\n
    7. Click DC=vdi,dc=vmware,dc=int<\/b> to expand.<\/li>\n
    8. Expand OU=Properties, OU=Global then right click CN=License and choose Properties<\/b>.\n
    9. Scroll down to pae-LicenseKey2<\/b>, choose Edit, and remove all entries.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Wait at least 2 minutes for the ADAM database to replicate to other Connection Servers, then go verify that VMware Horizon is now unlicensed in the Horizon Administrator. <\/p>\n

      When you check the licenses in the VMware Horizon Administrator, you see the following.<\/p>\n

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      When you add a VMware Horizon license to an environment there is no \u201cbuild in\u201d option to remove a license. You can imaging wanting to remove a POC or testing license once you move the environment from POC or testing to production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horizon","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}