{"id":3477,"date":"2025-03-06T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2025-03-06T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:24:21","slug":"vcenter-cant-add-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3477","title":{"rendered":"vCenter can&#8217;t add license"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While trying to assign a VmWare kit license replacing an evaluation license, the following error displays saying vMotion is enabled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"785\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png 785w, https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-768x422.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>it&#8217;s not obvious how to resolve this<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In each host, under Networking, VmKernal NICs, the vMotion needs to be de-selected<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"949\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2.png 949w, https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-768x166.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 949px) 100vw, 949px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Select the NIC under Name, Edit Settings and de-select the services, vMotion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"814\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3.png 814w, https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/increasec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-768x555.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>reboot the host<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assign the license from the host interface not vCenter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>delete the host from within vCenter and add it back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While trying to assign a VmWare kit license replacing an evaluation license, the following error displays saying vMotion is enabled. it&#8217;s not obvious how to resolve this In each host,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}