Unable to apply vDefend Firewall license on VCF 9.0

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)
• VMware vDefend Firewall
• VMware vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention

Issue/Introduction

• Unable to apply license keys for:
  
  • VMware vDefend Firewall
  • VMware vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention
    
    
• When attempting to apply vDefend license key in NSX 9.0 UI, the following message appears:
  
  Code 3045 This license key is not supported in NSX


• NSX Manager - /var/log/syslog and /var/log/photon/nsxapi.log shows:
  

  License VMware Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention with capacityType core expiring at 0 is not supported in VCF 9.0

Environment

• VCF 9.0.0 / 9.0.1
• vDefend Firewall / vDefend Firewall with ATP 9.0.0/9.0.1

Cause

The current code does not allow for non-expiring keys to be entered.

Resolution

This is fixed in VCF 9.0.2 where NSX Manager will accept vDefend keys with no expiration dates.

Additional Information

NOTE:

 

The product only allows acceptance of the following vDefend solution keys:

• VMware vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention
• VMware vDefend Firewall

These component keys are not accepted, because they are a subset of solution keys that are already accepted above:

• VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall
• VMware vDefend Gateway Firewall
• VMware vDefend Gateway Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention
• VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention