Revoking license from multiple objects in one go

[Nas]

We recently did an ESX & vCenter maintenance and after that all our VMs got new MoRef ID. This in turn consumed duplicate licenses by both old and new objects.
Revoking license manually one by one works by referring https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120, and I tried this but it's a painful manual process for hundreds of servers.

I'm interested to explore if anyone has encountered this before and willing to share tips/solution on how to quickly revoke the license.

[Mildur]

Hi Nas

Unfortunately there is no automated way through PowerShell or RestAPI to revoke those licenses.
You may open a support case and ask our support team if they can provide a SQL query to revoke the licenses for this specific use case (revoking hundreds of workloads because of MoRefID changes).

Best,
Fabian

[Nas]

Thanks for reply, Fabian.

After consulting with Veeam support, I may need to go with deleting one by one.
They cannot provide SQL query and revoking licenses via SQL query is not supported and not recommended way of deleting licenses according to support. If I were to proceed with SQL query, I will be on my own and need to accept the risk of unexpected issues.

Support will try to submit feature request for multiple selections of license revoking in future release.

[m.novelli]

+1 for multiple item selection to revoke licenses

Marco

[Mildur]

Hi Nas

Thank you for getting back to us with the answer from support.
Can you please share the case number with me? Then I can add your vote for this feature request with a reference to your case.

Best,
Fabian

[Nas]

Hi Fabian

Veeam Support - Case # 07033645

Thanks

[m.novelli]

Last week I've failed to upgrade a VMware vCenter from v7 to v8 , so I just decided to build a new vCenter... it has been easier to reconfigure VMware Cluster / DR / HA / licenses on two nodes Cluster than revoking one by one all VUL licenses due to new MoRef ID

Marco

[Mildur]

Hi Marco

For a migration scenario you may also ask your regional Veeam team to have a NFR license.
After 31 days, your old license should be usable again.

Best,
Fabian

[Nas]

Hi,

An update from my side, I found that using Detach from job option on v12 will revokes all the consumed instances from that job. This is a timesaver for me as we are deploying a new vCenter which will lead to a hundreds of new MoRef id again.