need for temporary license for bug veeam

[pizio]

Hi everyone,

on an HA of vSphere 5 essentials plus V 5.1 with backup of Veeam backup & replication 9.5 we have backup errors after the update of Veeam to the "update 4" version.

Veeam support said it's a bug.

KB2875: Jobs fail with "The host is not licensed for this feature" error message after upgrade to Ve...

How can I get a trial version to fix the problem while awaiting the bug fix?

Hello and thanks!

[daphnissov]

You'll have to contact your account team to see about that. We have no ability to generate licenses for you here.

[GayathriS]

Please check out this post :
https://www.virten.net/2016/11/free-esxi-6-5-how-to-download-and-get-license-keys/

It is explianed about similar issue and fix:

ESXI 6.5 Free License ?

Its always better to have a valid license before you proceed.

Please mark this as "correct" or " Helpfull" if this answers your query.

regards

Gayathri

[pizio]

Hi GayathriS,

I have version 5.1 not 6.5.

I tried to install the trial version 5.1 but with vSphere client I see that the trial version does not have the key.

Do you have any other ideas?

Thank you for your time

[daphnissov]

No, there's no other option other than to not upgrade Veeam 9.5 to U4, which in itself is funny that you'd want the bleeding edge of backup application but are fine with a 7-year-old version of vSphere.

[a_p_]

Veeam support said it's a bug.

Did you ask them whether it is possible to revert to Update 3?

André

[daphnissov]

It's not a bug with Veeam but with VMware's often-buggy VDDK. You can either wait for the hotfix to become available (which has a downgraded VDDK 5.5) or revert to U3.