How to get your Broadcom (VMware) software and licenses with Sherweb



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Description

As a Registered Partner with Broadcom, you can use Sherweb to provide you licenses for Broadcom (VMware) products. Once licences are generated, we will place them to a cloud repository. You can then download your licenses and software from that cloud repository at your convenience. Follow this article for details on accessing your licenses and software.

Requirements

- To follow this procedure, you must be a Registered Partner with Broadcom and have a service agreement with Sherweb about Broadcom licensing. Please contact your account manager for details.

- Have received credentials from Sherweb to access your Broadcom (VMware) software and licenses.

Procedures

Get your licenses using the Wasabi portal


Please follow this procedure to get your license files.


1. Navigate to https://console.wasabisys.com/ using your preferred browser and click on Sign in as Subuser.



2. Sign in using credentials and alias sent in the welcome email.


Example:




3. You should now access a page like this:



4. Replace the current URL (https://console.wasabisys.com/dashboard) in your browser by https://console.wasabisys.com/file_manager/[username]?region=ca-central-1

Example:

With a username "myname", the new URL is https://console.wasabisys.com/file_manager/myname?region=ca-central-1

The page should now look like this:



5. Your license files can now be downloaded.






Get Broadcom (VMware) software using the Wasabi portal



1. Follow steps above to sign in to your account until you access the dashboard.

2. Replace the current URL (https://console.wasabisys.com/dashboard) in your browser by https://console.wasabisys.com/file_manager/fileshare-software/VMWare/VMWare?region=ca-central-1

The page should now look like this:



You can now browse and download required files.





Get Broadcom (VMware) software using the S3 protocol


You can also use this alternative method to obtain your software, as the Wasabi portal may time out when downloading large files.


1. Get the required address and keys sent in the welcome email

Example:



2. Use the information with your preferred file transfer software.

The bucket (fileshare-software) must be specified before connecting to the object storage account.

Example below with WinSCP:





You can now browse and download required files.


References

https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/how-do-i-use-winscp-with-wasabi