I have a cluster with 2 HP 685c G5 blade servers in it. The license server is on the virtual center server and both servers appear to be fully licensed on the configuration tab. I have unused licenses as well. I am able to vmotion from system A to system B but not from system B to system A. If I shut down a Machine that is on A then I am not able to restart that system on A, I have to migrate it to B and start it up.
The message I get is "There are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation."
I am able to migrate systems to A but not vmotion them. Once they have been moved there however I can not power them on. If I try to vmotion the system It just fails with the message above.
The hostd log displays this when I try to power on a virtual machine
Current value 141268 exceeds soft limit 122880.
Task Created : haTask-2016-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-154140801
Event 622 : guestname on host hostname.xxx.xxx.edu in ha-datacenter is starting
State Transition (VM_STATE_OFF -> VM_STATE_POWERING_ON)
Failed to get License for : san. Action : Reporting Feature unlicensed Event
Event 623 : A required license SAN Usage is not reserved
Failed to get License for features. Action : throwing NotEnoughLicenses
Failed operation
Event 624 : Failed to power on guestname on hostname.xxx.xxx.edu in ha-datacenter: A general system error occurred:
State Transition (VM_STATE_POWERING_ON -> VM_STATE_OFF)
Task Completed : haTask-2016-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-154140801
Activation : Invoke done on
Throw vmodl.fault.NotEnoughLicenses
Result:
(vmodl.fault.NotEnoughLicenses) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
msg = ""
}
