Failed to Power on there are not enough licenses

[Ravi1987]

hi when i power on my virtual machine i get this error on my vc server

Failed to Power on there are not enough licenses

Please suggect me the solution as this is my critical production server.

[elgordojimenez]

Hello Ravi,

Licenses for esx hosts are given by CPU, are you running this from Virtual Center or just VI Client?. There is a grace period and after it expires, you wont be able to power on vms until a license is applied.

[weinstein5]

USing the VMware License tool confirm if the license file is getting loaded properly and the license server is running- this is installed on the VC Server itself - and check the licensing with the VI Client

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[elgordojimenez]

yeah weinstein is right. Also it depends if you are using a license server or a license file locally on the VIC server.

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[Ravi1987]

after checking the licsense server i found licsense server was not properly reading the license file . i rectify the issue by top start and reread the lic file and after that issue got resolved

thanks for support

[Ravi1987]

Thanks for reply.