I was looking for instant one-liner PowerCLI script to get licensing report of ESXi servers and also wanted one-liner commands to assign / remove licenses on ESXi servers, Below scripts help to do the tasks.
#Connect ESXi Server $vmHost = Get-VMHost -Name ironman.vcloud-lab.com #Assign / Remove Evaluation license to ESXi server Set-VMHost -VMHost $vmHost -LicenseKey 00000-00000-00000-00000-00000 #Assign 25 digit separated by - into five batches to ESXi server Set-VMHost -VMHost $vmHost -LicenseKey ABC12-ABC12-ABC12-ABC12-ABC12 #Get ESXi assigned license information Get-VMHost -Name ironman.vcloud-lab.com | Select-Object Name, LicenseKey
Download Set-EsxiLicenses.ps1 here, This script is also available on github.com/kunaludapi.
To get ESXi only report there is a LicenseKey property on Get-VMHost. Next if you want to remove or assign evaluation key 00000-00000-00000-00000-00000 use LicenseKey parameter with Set-VMHost.
To assign or change a actual license you use same Set-VMHost with LicenseKey parameter.
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