Storage i/o Control - Error

[danielpuls]

Hello community,

i scream a big hello to the community .

Her is my small mistake:

I wanna enable storage i/o control on my ESXi 5.1 (managed by vSphere 5.5 web client), datastore is a CX4-120 (latest flare).

But, there is a error message that i runs ESXi 4.1 ?! :smileyplain:

"The data store 'CX4-120' is connected to at least one host before version 4.1, does not support the Storage I / O Control."

germany:

"Der Datenspeicher 'CX4-120' ist mit mindestens einem Host vor Version 4.1 verbunden, der Storage I/O Control nicht unterstützt."

Anybody has an idea?

Both ESXi 5.1 Hosts was a full clean install (3 days ago), the VMs was deregistered on ESX 3.5 hosts and registered in the new cluster (vmware + vmhardwar updated).

thanks for help.

[Gortee]

Evening,

When you moved the vm did you upgrade the datastore to vmfs 5? 

Thanks,

J

[danielpuls]

Hello Gortee,

yes, the Storage was succesfull upgraded to VMFS5.

[Linjo]

What hardware version does your VM:s have?

[danielpuls]

The most VMs runs hardware version 9, but there are 2 VMs running hardware version 4.

[danielpuls]

OK, all VMs runs now VMHW version 9, but the error still exists.

Anyone has any helpful idea?

[frankdenneman · Accepted solution]

Hi Daniel,

Did you check the license on your hosts? Are the correct licenses applied?

Although SIOC require an enterprise plus license, sometimes the UI makes a mistake and makes the option visible. Once you enable it, the license is checked and you can receive this error.

Hopes this helps

Frank Denneman

https://twitter.com/frankdenneman

[danielpuls]

Hello Frank,

youre right..this is the answer.

Thanks all.