

This is the reason why you may see your license counts double. Keep in mind that the change of licensing in vSphere means that the old VI3 licenses that were associated to a pair of CPUs are converted to License Keys that are associated to a single CPU.

I’ve had a number of clients already ask me about this portal and working with the new License Keys, so I thought I would help the entire VMware community by creating this quick guide to the new portal. While a change like this is never easy, the vSphere team has done a good job on make this process as simply as possible through the launch of an updated License Portal. Today was the day everyone has been waiting for, vSphere 4 is now publicly available! This also means that all existing VMware customers who want to migrate to vSphere need to start working with the new vSphere license keys instead of the old license files.
