Not able to apply proper license after working with Evaluation license for 2 weeks

[whyAreAllUserna]

After trying out various features (vMotion, DRS, distributes switches) with the Evaluation License, I wanted to apply the Essentials Kit license we bought.

I deactivated DRS and vMotion, and moved the networking back to standard virtual switches.

When I now try to assign a license to a ESXi host, it states vMotion was still activated. I followed the KB article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1010376 precisely and all vmKernel adapters have the vMotion flag set to disabled, as you can see in the screenshot attached. There is only this one vmKernel adapter per host. The configuration is the same on all hosts. I can apply the license to none of them.

[daphnissov]

Try in the Flex client (https://<FQDN>/vsphere-client) and see if that works for you. Could be an issue in the HTML5 client.

[whyAreAllUserna]

exactly the same I'm afraid

[daphnissov · Accepted solution]

Do you have VMs running on these hosts? Anything pointed at vCenter (backup, monitoring, etc)? If not, you might try to remove the hosts from inventory and add them back. Sometimes state gets hung up in the DB and isn't purged until you do this. There are considerations to doing this, but if you haven't really started building this out yet and don't have things hooked up, remove/re-add is normally fine.

[whyAreAllUserna]

I have VMs running already on all hosts, but I could will try this and come back to tell you how it went. Thanks for you reply.

[a_p_]

You don't still have DRS enabled in the cluster, do you?

Btw. are you working with IP addresses on purpose? If not, consider to add static Host-A entries to your DNS server, and use the FQDN names instead.

André

[whyAreAllUserna]

Removing and readding the hosts to the cluster did the trick! Thank you very much.