Hypervisor Evaluation Licence Expired & VMs Not Working

[ChrisC6]

Hey Guys,

I have a Mac Pro Server and we have installed ESXi 6.7. This was licensed with a 60-day Evaluation License, it has now expired and we also have noticed that the 2 Mac VDIs that were running on this host are not booting up. One is stuck at the Apple logo screen and the other is stuck in a reboot loop. I have a free licence that I got from VMwares site and assigned that to the ESXi host, but still the VDIs are stuck. Would this be a licence issue or would it be something else?

Thanks

Chris

[asajm]

Hi ChrisC6​

Can you give us an error?

[ChrisC6]

Hey Asajm,

No obvious errors are present. This is an unmanged ESXi Mac Host, not managed in vCenter. I hadn't logged in to this host in a while but when I did I noticed the licence expired and the 2 VMs would not boot up. I was just wondering if the licence would have caused this 😕

I got a free licence and applied that to see if it would allow the VMs to boot up but no luck.

The VMs are on a datastore on Netapp and even the snapshots on Netapp are gone which is odd, so maybe this is not a licence issue. I'm just troubleshooting and trying to rule out obvious issues.

Thanks for the reply

[asajm]

Yes, I think it's not a license issue.

Are there other VMs running in your Netapp storage?

[daphnissov]

Please move to vSphere.

[a_p_]

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