Licensing Question on fresh built Vcenter w/new DB

[willkerr]

I had my Vcenter server crash and could not get into vcenter at all ( of course this server had no backups).  Uninstalled/Reinstalled Vcenter and when I am adding the  host I get this Warning: host is licensed to another vcenter. The original Vcenter and DB do not exist anymore, can I just add the host with the same license to the new Vcenter with out any interruption of production?

I have 5 host boxes with numerous servers running in production.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[a_nut_in]

Does it say it's licensed to or registered to? Depending on that, it can mean two different things altogether.

Both ways, connecting the hosta back to VC and reapplying the licences should work.

The reason the message about hosts being registered to another VC comes up is because the VC ip is enumerated in the vpxa.cfg files of individual hosts.

[willkerr]

Here is the warning

Will adding this to the new host write over the old vpxa.cfg file?

I am backing up one host with just a few servers running on it then plan on mirating the couple of servers to another host.  This will free up a host to test with. Hopefully when I add the test host to the VC it will be fine.

[a_nut_in]

Ya, that's fine. Just choose use key and you should be fine.

[jdptechnc]

willkerr wrote:

Here is the warning

Will adding this to the new host write over the old vpxa.cfg file?

I am backing up one host with just a few servers running on it then plan on mirating the couple of servers to another host.  This will free up a host to test with. Hopefully when I add the test host to the VC it will be fine.

I believe it is telling you the key that the host has been using is registered to another vCenter inventory (which doesn't exist anymore since the old vCenter was blown away).  It is asking you if you want to use that key and register it in this new vCenter.  If you use that existing key it doesn't change anything on the host (other than the changes you would expect with registering it with the new vCenter).  You shouldn't run into any issues.

[willkerr]

Thanks for the quick responses.  I will post what happens here in a bit.