newbie licensing question: not enough licenses installed

[tim_moor]

dear esx gurus

i just installed a eval esx 301 version on a 2 cpu host. then i installed the license server and the virtual center server on the same w2k3 box. i generated a a licence server based licence file and installed it. when i try to power on the first virtual machine i receive a message:

there are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation. i checked

configuraton -> licensed features:

use license server points to the correct host

host license file: none

esx server licence type: unlicensed.

i can't change the esx server licence type to 'standard' this feature is greyed out.

thank you for a hint

tim

[snapper_]

not sure , but after generating the lic file open VI client directly to the ESX host if you do not have a VC server. then under configuration pick licensing and click properties right top and browse to lic file to import it into esx host.

click on edit button after that to enable license file options

maybe this point you in direction to look

[mstahl75]

Make sure your EVAL version also has licenses for VirtualCenter. If it doesn't then you won't be able to import anythng into VC.

[tim_moor]

my eval lic file looks like this:

i guess there is a option included for the vc

tim

#

SERVER this_host ANY 27000

VENDOR VMWARELM port=27010

USE_SERVER

INCREMENT PROD_VC VMWARELM 2005.05 10-nov-2006 1 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server ISSUED=12-Oct-2006 \

NOTICE=FulfillmentId=121049 SIGN="12B8 3528 E602 B949 FA5D \

6C94 EF16 25C9 A3B0 6B92 EE20 FEBD 26A4 2658 1A34 059F B11E \

5007 88CB 57E5 7F32 2650 C554 B796 32CC ECBA 46EE A117 CC70 \

A1B7"

#

INCREMENT PROD_ESX_FULL VMWARELM 2005.05 10-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage;gp=14;exclude=BACKUP \

ISSUED=12-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=121048 SIGN="1132 B1E7 \

E66A C355 C75C 24F6 97C0 3D5F FD9D 62C2 6E9C 6BAD D6DF F389 \

17CC 0E2D 71F8 A023 E806 5A58 6467 985D B168 07D7 92EE 98C7 \

34A6 A172 79F2 0AAE"

INCREMENT ESX_FULL_BACKUP VMWARELM 2005.05 10-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage \

ISSUED=12-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=121048 SIGN="1E1E ED81 \

1C01 7165 FE98 C78C 42C4 0F90 1822 49C7 360E F73C 5F1C EC0A \

C917 132A 1D8C C297 B3A0 E7BD 9C49 E9CE 5B7C 3CBB 22BE 12F1 \

0F4A 9C3E A50B FE7D"

INCREMENT VC_ESXHOST VMWARELM 2005.05 10-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage \

ISSUED=12-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=121048 SIGN="11BD E13E \

6253 4C71 CDB3 EA55 8368 6257 70B6 EBD6 98DD 6069 C4D9 9F4D \

0836 0006 DD7F D5E9 D331 E381 F094 0BA0 0C4A 8624 DA2B BD6C \

FB8C 46A7 FA61 53A1"

INCREMENT VC_VMOTION VMWARELM 2005.05 10-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage \

ISSUED=12-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=121048 SIGN="17A2 38F7 \

6AC2 8937 9505 C61A 5A05 F279 2D22 92EB 2FCF 009B 7B94 29E6 \

5E89 1F68 532F BD8F 600D E891 2BC2 0628 2BAB 853B 5F56 36B3 \

8EAC 70A1 9647 8619"

INCREMENT VC_DAS VMWARELM 2005.05 10-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage \

ISSUED=12-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=121048 SIGN="0895 946A \

5632 53FA BBC9 DE56 0878 0D02 DA2D 81DF E123 153E 0A67 0D6A \

D260 1A74 5DF9 8D10 C292 BAD3 00C8 1F17 F03A D4C6 B398 03A0 \

EF1E EC09 1C6A 25B1"

INCREMENT VC_DRS VMWARELM 2005.05 10-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage \

ISSUED=12-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=121048 SIGN="186E D045 \

209E 8C40 358F 1AEF 68E1 5C44 0149 2EFF A735 4FD6 FC62 A173 \

E32C 1358 59A4 2205 A4A7 6265 6399 A210 C6E7 CAAB 1807 9DAC \

CD75 C7EF AC21 0E46"

[mstahl75]

Are the #[/b]'s in your license file? If so I would remove those. make sure there is no extra line breaks before the first line in the file and I wouldn't have any between individual licenses.

[tim_moor]

i downloaded this lic file form vmware without modifying it. before i did the cut and past into this forum i only removed the #### comments.

tim

[juchestyle]

What is the name of your license file?

Did you identify the license file when you first installed virtual center 2.0?

Respectfully,

[tim_moor]

the name of the file i downloaded was:

license_20061012062155.lic. during installation of the vc i pointed to this file and the application accepted it without problems.

tim

[juchestyle]

Hey Tim,

I thought I saw something in the install documents that suggested naming the file something specific. I don't' know if the name would be enough to cause a problem but it may be worth a try. I think the documentation suggested:

vmware.lic

Respectfully,

[tim_moor]

thank you for your help Matthew

renaming the file doesn't change the situation. i tried this also.

tim

[mstahl75]

My license file is vmware.lic and it is located in c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware License Server

The file itself starts off like this:

SERVER this_host ANY 27000

VENDOR VMWARELM port=27010

USE_SERVER

INCREMENT PROD_VC VMWARELM 2005.05 permanent 1 \[/code]

No spaces at the beginning of the file, no spaces between the licenses, and no space at the end of the file. I also don't have any #[/b]'s in the file. This file should not have been created with Word. Use something like Wordpad.

[sduffy]

I have the exact same problem. In the short term I changed to a host based license to get my esx server up with vm's. But I have not fixed this issue or found any posting that would lead me to an answer. Help

[tim_moor]

so far i was not able to run esx on the prefered license server based basis. so i go for host based licensing. is there any need to install the licence server if i choose host based licensing ? what about the the virtual center licensing. host based licensing only provides licences for:

INCREMENT PROD_ESX_FULL VMWARELM 2005.05 12-nov-2006 uncounted \

INCREMENT ESX_FULL_BACKUP VMWARELM 2005.05 12-nov-2006 uncounted \

can i run the virtual center management server anyway ?

tim

[mstahl75]

You will needed the license server for any VC provided services. VMotion/HA/DRS.

So, are you saying that cleaning up your license file to remove the #[/b]'s and extraneous spacing (if it existed), then restarting the license server service or rereading the license didn't work?

[tim_moor]

i just downloaded a new eval lic file and removed all #comments. same problem.

still the message: not enough licenses installed. performing a status check on the license server reports no error.

tim

SERVER this_host ANY 27000

VENDOR VMWARELM port=27010

USE_SERVER

INCREMENT PROD_VC VMWARELM 2005.05 14-nov-2006 1 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server ISSUED=16-Oct-2006 \

NOTICE=FulfillmentId=123634 SIGN="0D77 916B D6D9 C705 BDB5 \

2254 3DAE 0725 B9A6 5DBA 3EE2 5293 4F21 EC8E DD96 0AE3 A43F \

8D15 7CF7 1B44 A2A4 DCB5 973D D30F 1A3C 02F9 3AA8 7F5A 3AE1 \

A0E8"

INCREMENT PROD_ESX_FULL VMWARELM 2005.05 14-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage;gp=14;exclude=BACKUP \

ISSUED=16-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=123633 SIGN="1C8F 2001 \

4624 3421 BCE2 5C7B DF9D C589 309B 97B6 D635 41B9 3222 DF40 \

976E 171D 34C4 0F0B 39A2 03DA 74A6 C861 E4A2 8C43 DE4F AE68 \

ED05 6F6F 3858 9C99"

INCREMENT ESX_FULL_BACKUP VMWARELM 2005.05 14-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage \

ISSUED=16-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=123633 SIGN="16B0 BB57 \

5F91 1C2C 10F2 82FB 91B5 4255 6574 4D2E C761 57A8 6D64 A0C5 \

CEDC 03D7 044E 03AC 20B3 37CB 997B 6F4F 810F FF43 C90C 7641 \

3B2A 2ACE 1D44 5295"

INCREMENT VC_ESXHOST VMWARELM 2005.05 14-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage \

ISSUED=16-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=123633 SIGN="1F85 DC3C \

B10B BD8E 96BC 1613 22E8 3E4D 733A FD9F 3AC1 64A7 865B FF5F \

C456 0E38 A7A1 6C0F 0246 7192 AC52 5824 92FD E2B3 69A8 BAFD \

F6DE E0A9 B940 EF8A"

INCREMENT VC_VMOTION VMWARELM 2005.05 14-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage \

ISSUED=16-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=123633 SIGN="164C 33FD \

5599 0BE2 EE3E 3956 24FA 022C 913B DA73 F9E8 A95B 4ACC 261C \

E3D9 0DBD 05A2 9CEB 8582 C79A C769 D93F B235 D112 18A2 C9C1 \

D7C3 A1ED FF80 1C99"

INCREMENT VC_DAS VMWARELM 2005.05 14-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage \

ISSUED=16-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=123633 SIGN="1155 F794 \

9820 AFBE 315A F410 E427 999D DCE4 39F2 C577 4171 DFD9 51B9 \

C6D6 0348 8B9B 03D0 13E6 2260 C9A9 375F 48FD B0DB 4FA5 3CF3 \

78E7 888F D095 6FE2"

INCREMENT VC_DRS VMWARELM 2005.05 14-nov-2006 16 \

VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server;capacityType=cpuPackage \

ISSUED=16-Oct-2006 NOTICE=FulfillmentId=123633 SIGN="17BE 0C2E \

6480 C6FA 09DF 4BF6 2EF1 DFF4 A96D 277D FAD4 910D D553 EC55 \

0B21 0A5C CDCC B55D B488 1D28 105B 919A D11D 226B B867 32CF \

2211 D436 A157 11F7"

[tim_moor]

for all of you out there who might have the same problem check that:

i downloaded an eval copy of esx 301. whenever i tried to start a virtual host i received -> not enough licenses installed .....

the problem:

the server i installed esx 301 had a wrong date stored in the bios. after entering the correct date / time everything worked. selfgoal.....

many thanks to all of you who tried to help

tim

[TEGO]

Thanks a lot!

I had the same problem - your advice solved the problem.

[selvakumaran]

i tried all these options. But not successful. pls advice