Hosting floating license at a virtual machine?

[novero]

Hello,

I've tried to move the 2 floating ESX licenses that we have

from a "real" machine to a virtual machine and even though

the lmtools.exe shows the licenses as available:

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Flexible License Manager status on Mon 2/9/2009 09:54
http://Detecting lmgrd processes...
License server status: 27000@ablapp02
License file(s) on ablapp02: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware License Server\Licenses\vmware.lic:
ablapp02: license server UP v10.8
Vendor daemon status (on ablapp02.internal.novero.com):
VMWARELM: UP v10.8
Feature usage info:
Users of PROD_ESX_FULL: (Total of 4 licenses issued; Total of 0 licenses in use)
Users of ESX_FULL_BACKUP: (Total of 4 licenses issued; Total of 0 licenses in use)
Users of VC_ESXHOST: (Total of 4 licenses issued; Total of 0 licenses in use)
Users of VC_VMOTION: (Total of 4 licenses issued; Total of 0 licenses in use)
Users of VC_DAS: (Total of 4 licenses issued; Total of 0 licenses in use)
Users of VC_DRS: (Total of 4 licenses issued; Total of 0 licenses in use)

the VI client displays "Unlicensed" and I have to change it to the old server.

My question is if it's generally possible to host floating licenses on one of the virtual machines?

Our setup is that we have 2 VMWare ESX 3.5 servers and use VI client to access them.

We don't have VMotion or any other products because the VMWare web page reports

them as not available to us (what I actually don't really understand)

Thank you

Alex

[kooltechies]

Hi,

There should not be a problem in moving the license files from a physical license server to a VMware VM License server. If this is not working after moving to a VM then you should take the normal troubleshooting approach.

Try deleting the /etc/vmware/license.cfg file from the ESX Servers and then again through the VI client try to map them to your license server like 27000@license-server.

Thanks,

Samir