A warning message "Some features will become unavailable" is shown when applying a license to esxi host in evaluation mode

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 8.0
• VMware vCenter Server 7.0

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• A warning message "Some features will become unavailable" is shown when applying a license to esxi host in evaluation mode
• "the license does not support DRS in Maintenance Mode" is shown when clicking on Details

 

Cause

These warning message appears if the license doesn't have the feature "DRS in Maintenance mode".
This feature can automatically migrate virtual machines to another ESXi host without DRS when the host enter maintenance mode.

For more information, see "DRS Maintenance Mode Functionality with ROBO Enterprise License" section of the vSphere Resource Management

Resolution

This messages can be ignored if the licesnse have DRS feature.