With the release of vSphere 8.0 Update 3 now generally available (release notes and direct download links below):
I know the first question I will get (which I already have already :P) is what about updated versions of the Nested ESXi Virtual Appliance and USB Network Native Driver for ESXi? 😅
For most users, you probably have a large collection of vSphere license keys that have been provisioned over the years and keeping track of the product SKU, entitled features and capacity can be a challenge, especially if you are just looking at the raw 25 character license string.
While the Broadcom Support Portal (BSP) is recommended for all license management operations(view, split, merge, etc), did you know you could also use vCenter Server to help decode a particular license key?
Since vSphere 7.0, it has been much simpler to correlate between an NSX network segment defined in NSX Manager and its representation as a vSphere Distributed Virtual Portgroup (DVG) in vCenter Server as demonstrated in screenshot below using the vSphere UI.
With the additional NSX information such as NSX Transport Zone ID, Transport Zone ID Name, Logical Switch ID, Segment Name and VNI (Virtual Network Identifier), users can streamline debugging and troubleshooting issues with their network team by quickly providing this relevant information.
I recently had a user ask about retrieving the VNI information for a given NSX segment in vCenter Server using PowerCLI, so here is a quick snippet including other NSX information for those interested.