Licensing (BYOL only)

End of Marketing: As of 31 October 2025, new deployments of VMware Solutions offerings are no longer available for new customers. Existing customers can still use and expand their active VMware® workloads on IBM Cloud®. For more information, see End of Marketing for VMware on IBM Cloud.

Bring Your Own License (BYOL) is no longer supported except for migrations or upgrades of existing BYOL clusters. Use this feature only if you are upgrading or migrating an existing BYOL cluster.

If you are a BYOL user, provide your own license keys for VMware vCenter Server® (Enterprise Plus edition), VMware vSphere® (Enterprise Plus edition), and VMware NSX® (Data Center SP Enterprise Plus). Toggle the BYOL switch to Enabled and enter your license keys.