vCenter 6.5 says valid license will expire

[bhargavjani]

Recently upgraded from 5.5 to 6.5 on about 40 hosts. We had our licenses upgraded, and all was working fine for 6 weeks.

I'm now getting an error message in vSphere for four of the hosts which are in the same subnet saying:

"Your host license expires in 10 days. The host will disconnect from vCenter Server when it's license expires."

I've double checked all the hosts to make sure that license isn't being used elsewhere. Have tried renaming the license and then removing and re-adding the host to vSphere, issue persists.

Any ideas? Here is the license the server is using:

and here is the license details:

Thanks in advance.

[msripada]

Can you check the validity of the license though it shows never it will have an expiry. can you please verify the same?

[RickVerstegen]

Check your vCenter Server license?

You mentioned the vSphere license which looks fine.

Rick

[bhargavjani]

The license shows up in my vmware web portal when I login so it's a valid license.

[luwenwei]

Reactivate it, the key problem, right?

[bhargavjani]

Problem isn't the key. I've tried putting another spare license we had on that host and it still says license will expire in 'x' days.

8 days left.

[a_p_]

Out of curiosity, what do you see in the license section when you login directly to the host?

André

[luwenwei]

Are you having problems with the system? Is this all the same?

[bhargavjani]

when logging in to the host it also shows the license is going to expire.

[a_p_]

Does it show the expected license information in the licensing section, or does it show evaluation mode?

In case it doesn't show the license, try to apply the licence directly on the host to see whether it works, or not (maybe there's a helpful error message in this case).

André

[abevern]

I had the same issue after upgrading to vCenter 6.5 with some existing 5.5 hosts that were not upgraded.

I tried assigning new licenses, re-assigning existing etc. No dice.

I connected to the ESXi host directly using the fat client and found that the host was showing that the evaluation license had expired. They should not have been on an evaluation license.

I manually assigned the existing license to the ESXi host, then removed the host from vCenter and re-added.

Problem solved.