If you need to revoke a license from a deployed VM and update it with a new valid license, use this procedure. If additional physical cores are needed to properly license your system, contact your Teradata Account Team for assistance.
- Open a VMware vSphere PowerCLI shell version 5.5 or later.
- Type the following command from the PowerCLI prompt to connect to the vCenter that manages the ESXi hosts that will be running the Teradata Database VMs: connect-VIServer -server vCenter.server.name
- Navigate to the directory containing the Teradata Database on VMware deployment executable file (C:\mylocation\Teradata_Deployer\).
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Run tdc.deploy.exe interactively.
.\tdc.deploy.exe -commonITproperties common.IT.properties.json -nodeITproperties node.IT.properties.json - From the PowerCLI terminal, type revoke_license to revoke the license for an existing (deployed) VM. For a description of the action this state (command) performs, PowerCLI Commands for Teradata Database on VMware.
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Run tdc.deploy.exe interactively.
.\tdc.deploy.exe -commonITproperties common.IT.properties.json -nodeITproperties node.IT.properties.json - Type activate_license to generate a license for the existing VM.
- Type copyfiles to transfer the configuration scripts into each VM.
- Follow the prompts to finish revoking and updating the license.