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Michael_Zlotnik
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Apr 05, 2016
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Unable to re-activate license for an AWS marketplace machine

We have couple of F5 Big-IP VE units from AWS marketplace that are on hourly licensing contract. I'm trying to re-activate the license on these units to be able to upgrade these machines to newer sof...
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    Seth_81884
    Apr 05, 2016

    The 12.0-HF1 AMIs for Hourly Billing are not currently available in the marketplace.

     

    So this sounds like you are trying to install the 12.0-HF1 .iso (for BYOL) into slot 1.2 and then booting to that volume.

     

    If so, this would be a HB to BYOL migration and you would need a new BYOL license.

     

    If you did apply a BYOL license to a HB instance, AWS 'may' still see it as a Hourly billing instance (from the original ami-id) and will bill you as if it was. So the process is:

     

    "To convert an HB license to a BYOL license, you launch a new BYOL instance, apply the BYOL license, and move the configuration."

     

    Since you are using Hourly Billing, you will have to wait for the new 12.0-HF1 HB instances to be made available. When the new AMIs are available the upgrade process between Hourly Billing instances it to:

     

    "To update an HB license you launch a new instance, apply the existing configuration, and retire the old HB instance."

     

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Seth_81884
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The 12.0-HF1 AMIs for Hourly Billing are not currently available in the marketplace.

 

So this sounds like you are trying to install the 12.0-HF1 .iso (for BYOL) into slot 1.2 and then booting to that volume.

 

If so, this would be a HB to BYOL migration and you would need a new BYOL license.

 

If you did apply a BYOL license to a HB instance, AWS 'may' still see it as a Hourly billing instance (from the original ami-id) and will bill you as if it was. So the process is:

 

"To convert an HB license to a BYOL license, you launch a new BYOL instance, apply the BYOL license, and move the configuration."

 

Since you are using Hourly Billing, you will have to wait for the new 12.0-HF1 HB instances to be made available. When the new AMIs are available the upgrade process between Hourly Billing instances it to:

 

"To update an HB license you launch a new instance, apply the existing configuration, and retire the old HB instance."

 

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Michael_Zlotnik
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Apr 14, 2016
Hi Seth, The issue is that AWS doesn't yet offer version 12.0 for its HB instances and i don't want to change the scheme of the licensing that we currently have and move to the BYOL. If I update the device myself to version 12.0-HF1 (install into new partition) - do you know if it will still be under HB license with AWS?