Revoking and Updating a License for a VM - Teradata Vantage on VMware

Teradata Vantageā„¢ on VMware Base, Advanced, Enterprise Tiers Getting Started Guide

Product
Teradata Vantage on VMware
Release Number
Deployer 3.02.01
Published
February 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2020-02-14
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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.
  1. Open a VMware vSphere PowerCLI shell version 5.5 or later.
  2. Navigate to the directory containing the Teradata Vantage on VMware deployment executable file (C:\mylocation\Teradata_Deployer\).
  3. Run tdc.deploy.exe interactively.
    .\tdc.deploy.exe -commonITproperties common.IT.properties.json 
    -nodeITproperties node.IT.properties.json
  4. 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 Vantage on VMware.
  5. Run tdc.deploy.exe interactively.
    .\tdc.deploy.exe -commonITproperties common.IT.properties.json 
    -nodeITproperties node.IT.properties.json
  6. Type activate_license to generate a license for the existing VM.
  7. Follow the prompts to finish revoking and updating the license.