VxRail: VxRail Licensing Requirements for 9.0 Update

VMware perpetual licenses are not entitled to update to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 or VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0.

• VCF perpetual licenses are only entitled to update from the 5.x releases.
• vSphere and vSAN perpetual licenses are only entitled to update from the 8.x releases.

To upgrade your customer-managed VMware vCenter Server to 9.0, secure VMware vSphere 9.0 and VMware vSAN licenses for all connected VxRail clusters.

If customers want to access the 9.0 release, they must purchase a new VCF or VVF subscription offer.

Before updating the cluster to VCF 9.0 or VVF, customers first must confirm whether their current entitlements are compliant.

• All nodes in the cluster must be entitled with a VCF or VVF subscription offer before updating.

To identify if all nodes in the cluster are compliant, browse Broadcom's licensing portal.

Updating a noncompliant cluster could result in failure to update or require purchasing a new VCF or VVF subscription offer to replace the existing valid perpetual license post update. Once the cluster is successfully updated, it cannot be downgraded to the previous version.