How to remove HPE OneView Advance license from OneView

[quesnl]

HI,

How can I remove a HPE OneView Advance license from OneView with powershell ?

I tried the Remove-OVLicense but not luck.   Can somebody maybee give me an example of the syntax they use to remove a specific license.

Thanks

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[ChrisLynch · Accepted solution]

Examples are provided in the Cmdlet help by using either Get-Help Remove-OVLicense or Get-Help Remove-OVLicense -Online.

If you have a specifc license you need to remove, you first need to ensure the license is not in use:

# Return licenses looking for a specific license key assigned to a known host
Get-OVLicense | Where-Object { $_.Nodes -contains "MyHost" }

# Return licenses looking for a specific key value
Get-OVLicense | Where-Object { $_.Key -like "AABB CCDD" }

If the key is in use, you cannot remove the license.  If it not in use, where the output of Get-OVLicense and the Nodes property is empty/null, you can then pass that license key object to Remove-OVLicense.  For example:

# Will return all license keys that are not assigned to any server node
Get-OVLicense | Where-Object { $null -eq $_.Nodes }

[quesnl]

I tried and still no luck in removing the unused OneView license. Doest it require a minimum HPEOneview module ? I am currentelly running  HPEOneView 6.30.

[quesnl]

I finnaly found my issue. I dint realize that license list started at 0 when I was doing Get-OVlicense comand. After I figured it was ofset by 1  then I was able to select the proper license key and I was able to remove it with the following command example: Remove-OVLicense -InputObject $LicenseKeys[1]

[MV3]

Good to know the issue is resolved.

Cheers....