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 6.0 or later.
- Navigate to the directory containing the Vantage on VMware deployment executable file:C:\mylocation\Vantage_Deployer\
- Run tdc.deploy.exe interactively.
.\tdc.deploy.exe -commonITproperties Properties\common.IT.properties.json -nodeITproperties Properties\node.IT.properties.json - From the PowerCLI terminal, type revoke_license to revoke the license for an existing (deployed) VM.
- To re-credit the revoked licenses back into your account, contact Teradata Customer Support and provide the following files located in the telm/ directory: revokedLicenses.txt, permissionTicket, revocationProof.
- Run tdc.deploy.exe interactively.
.\tdc.deploy.exe -commonITproperties Properties\common.IT.properties.json -nodeITproperties Properties\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.