Hello,
Despite my better judgment, I figured I'd post here before I do a chargeback.
I have a host running VMware ESXi, 7.0.2, 17867351 and I cannot assign my vSphere 7 license to the host. If I had as a license in vCenter it doesn't show up in the hosts lists. If I right-click on the hosts and go to assign licenses it doesn't show any licenses available (despite showing as available) and when I try to assign it as a new license I get an error message saying it's not supported but doesn't say why.
When I assign the license from the CLI it appears to work but then goes back to being unassigned/unlicensed.
Processor Info (Type 4): #1024
Payload length: 0x2a
Socket: "CPU1"
Socket Type: 0x2b (Socket LGA2011-3)
Socket Status: Populated
Type: 0x03 (CPU)
Family: 0xb3 (Xeon)
Manufacturer: "Intel"
Version: "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz"
Processor ID: 0xbfebfbff000406f1
Status: 0x01 (Enabled)
Voltage: 1.3 V
External Clock: 9600 MHz
Max. Speed: 4000 MHz
Current Speed: 2600 MHz
L1 Cache: #1792
L2 Cache: #1793
L3 Cache: #1794
Core Count: 14
Core Enabled Count: 14
Thread Count: 28
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Processor Info (Type 4): #1025
Payload length: 0x2a
Socket: "CPU2"
Socket Type: 0x2b (Socket LGA2011-3)
Socket Status: Populated
Type: 0x03 (CPU)
Family: 0xb3 (Xeon)
Manufacturer: "Intel"
Version: "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz"
Processor ID: 0xbfebfbff000406f1
Status: 0x01 (Enabled)
Voltage: 1.3 V
External Clock: 9600 MHz
Max. Speed: 4000 MHz
Current Speed: 2600 MHz
L1 Cache: #1795
L2 Cache: #1796
L3 Cache: #1797
Core Count: 14
Core Enabled Count: 14
Thread Count: 28
[root@vm05-cjr:/var/log] smbiosDump |grep -A 4 'Physical Memory Array'
Physical Memory Array (Type 16): #4096
Use: 0x03 (System memory)
Location: 0x03 (Motherboard)
Slots: 24
Max. Size: 2048 GB
[root@vm05-cjr:/var/log] smbiosDump |grep -A 5 'System Info'
System Info (Type 1): #256
Serial: "D7RR082"
SKU: "SKU=NotProvided;ModelName="
UUID: 3238304fc0c45280521000374c4c4544
Wake-up: 0x06 (Power Switch)
Baseboard Info (Type 2): #512
You could try to add the vSphere ESXi (not vCenter Instance) license directly on the Host by using the HostClient or command line and see how this works. I have seen once in a lifetime that command line works where the GUI have failed.
Be sure that you dont have configured any non essentials feature like FT, DRS for example.
Regards,
Joerg