Is my 5.0 vCenter Server license good for 5.5?
If so, I need to figure out how to unassign it from the vCenter 5.0 server so I can apply it to the 5.5 install.
What I did was I cloned the VM running 5.0, then did the 5.5 upgrade on the clone in trial mode. When I look at licensing in 5.5, I see the vCenter license assigned to the 5.0 server (because the clone includes the database that contained the licensing info) and I don't see any way to unassign it. When I select the vCenter Server 5 license under Licenses, there is an option under Actions to remove the license key, but it's greyed out.
I just noticed the same issue with the vSphere 5 Enterprise licenses as well. They are also assigned to the 5.0 VM and the remove key option is greyed out.
Once 5.5 is fully up and running the plan is to shut down the old 5.0 server.
Thanks!