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This chapter describes how to troubleshoot issues that are related to firewall licensing on the Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM).
CISCO VSG follows universal licensing mode in which if VEM licenses are there, two VSG licenses are given.
A module is licensed or unlicensed according to the following definitions:
If a VEM is nonfirewalled, all the virtual Ethernet ports on the VEM that correspond to the virtual machines (VMs) are kept in pass-through mode, so that these virtual machines are not firewalled.
By default, VSG allocate 2 licenses for each VEM.
For additional information about licensing, see the Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere License Configuration Guide.
This section describes how to troubleshoot Cisco VSG license installation issues.
Note This section assumes that you have a valid Cisco VSG license file.
For additional information about licensing, see the Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere License Configuration Guide.
This section includes the following topics:
Before you start the troubleshooting process, follow these requirements:
If an evaluation license file is already installed on the VSM, you must remove it from the VSM before installing a permanent license file. For more information, see the Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere License Configuration Guide for your release number.
You can view the Cisco VSG license state of the VEMs on your VSM and the number of CPU sockets per VEM by entering the module vem 3 execute vemcmd show vsn config command.
This example shows how to confirm the Cisco VSG license state:
In this command output, VEM 3 is licensed. It has two CPU sockets and it currently uses two firewall licenses.
You can view the installed license count by entering the show license usage command.
This example shows how to display the installed licenses count: