Adding any ROBO Standard or Advanced license to a 2-node vSAN stretch cluster results in an error on vCenter 8.0U2.

Products

• VMware vSAN
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• 2-node vSAN stretched custer
• vCenter 8.0U2
• Upgrading vSAN 2-node stretched cluster from 7.x to 8.x results in the evaluation mode vSAN license being applied after upgrading the vCenter Server from 7.x to 8.x. as documented in KB Evaluation mode vSAN license applied after upgrading vCenter Server from 6.x to 7.x or 7.x to 8.x (80691).
• When assigning an 8.x ROBO Standard or Advanced license to the 2-node stretched cluster afterward, it results in the below error.

• Creating a 2-node vSAN stretched cluster with vCenter 8.0U2 and assigning the ROBO Standard or Advanced license to the cluster results in the same error as seen above.

Environment

VMware vSAN 8.0.x
VMware vSphere 8.02

Cause

As of vCenter version 8.0U2 vSAN licensing reports the asset registered features per license to ensure the proper licensing is in use for the vSAN cluster. This code change was not sophisticated enough to handle the caveat of ROBO licensing for 2-node streched clusters for standard and advanced licenses resulting in the error seen in the screenshot in the Symptoms section.

Resolution

Upgrade vCenter to 8.0U2a

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:
ROBO Standard or Advanced licenses fail to apply to the 2-node stretch cluster in vCenter 8.0U2