I did a fresh install of vCenter in my lab, starting at 5.1. Installed everything on D:\ without any errors (vCSSO, Inventory service, vCenter, Web Client, etc), and it all worked fine.
I entered in my vCenter license key from 5.0 and it work, entered in my vSphere 5 Enterprise Plus key, worked. I went to enter my vShield 5.0 for vCloud key, and I get "Invalid license key: License file not found".
I've tried entering other license keys and get the same problem, I've only been able to add my vCenter & Ent+ keys.
I looked in vpxd.log and found this:
2012-09-20T10:14:56.315-05:00 [04272 info 'commonvpxLro' opID=4B2A89F2-00000060-a1] [VpxLRO] -- BEGIN task-internal-1916 -- -- vim.LicenseManager.decodeLicense -- 73ca9e1d-b91f-86bf-1c7c-f35920405b46(5243f283-f887-227a-a037-5efd37a2a5a8)
2012-09-20T10:14:56.346-05:00 [04272 info 'licenselicenseUtil' opID=4B2A89F2-00000060-a1] Unable to decode license <snip> with error 5 using path dir://D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\licenses\site
2012-09-20T10:14:56.346-05:00 [04272 info 'commonvpxLro' opID=4B2A89F2-00000060-a1] [VpxLRO] -- FINISH task-internal-1916 -- -- vim.LicenseManager.decodeLicense --
vShield shows up as vCloud Networking and Security in Asset Management, and is currently in Eval Mode. I did set this up once before on vCenter 5.0, vShield Manager 5.0, and vCloud Director 1.5 and everything worked fine. I stepped through an upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1 and licenses were retained. I started with a fresh install and now I cannot add the license.
Has anyone else ran across this?
This is could be the license file missing issue, please check whether the :"D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\licenses\site" have the vshield license files.
I checked before posting and didn’t see any, but I’m not sure where to go from there.
This is could be the vShield installation issue, you should contact VMware support team in this case.
I'm running into the same issue. Did you ever get a fix? Still waiting on VMware support at this time.