License adding incorrectly for vCenter when creating new WLD

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

When creating a new VI Workload Domain and choosing to specify license keys, the bundled OEM license key is automatically used for vCenter.  There is no option to specify the purchased license.   So deployment always uses the OEM key for the vCenter.

license.log

YYYY-MM-DDT16:17:49.034Z invocation-vmomi-executor-3 operationID=61583128  WARN  server.core.oldmanagement.impl.LicenseAssignmentManagerImpl Missing license key AAAAA-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-BBBBB. Adding it back to inventory
YYYY-MM-DDT16:17:49.050Z invocation-vmomi-executor-3 operationID=61583128  INFO  server.core.oldmanagement.vmomi.LicenseAssignmentManagerMoImpl updateAssignedLicense result:LicenseInfo AAAAA-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-BBBBB

Environment

SDDC 5.2.x

Cause

This is by design.

Resolution

Choose "License Later" when creating the Workload domain and specify the license afterward manually.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-5-2-and-earlier/5-2/map-for-administering-vcf-5-2/working-with-workload-domains-admin/about-virtual-infrastructure-workload-domains-admin/deploy-a-vi-workload-domain-using-the-sddc-manager-ui-admin.html