"The license does not support some of the features that assets currently use" Error appears while assigning vSAN Standard License.

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• While assigning vSAN Standard License below error appears:
  
  
  
  Error - The license does not support some of the features that assets currently use.
  
  
• Under Details Section the below information is reported:
  
   
  Assignment Validation Details : The selected license does not support some of the features that are currently in use by the licensed assets.
  RAID5/RAID6

 

Environment

VMware vSAN 8.x

Cause

vSAN Standard license does not support RAID5/RAID6 vSAN storage policy. If there are objects in the cluster that use RAID5/RAID6 storage policy, then this error is expected during assignment of the vSAN Standard License to this vSAN cluster. 

• Using the ESXi host's SSH, use command to capture every vSAN object in the cluster: #esxcli vsan debug object list --all > /tmp/objectlist.txt

• The produced object file /tmp/objectlist.txt contains RAID5/RAID6 vSAN objects :

  

Resolution

Any vSAN objects using RAID5/RAID6 storage policy needs to be changed to RAID1.

Note: If the issue still persists, restart "vsanmgmtd" service on all hosts in vSAN cluster. Use the below commands,

#/etc/init.d/vsanmgmtd stop

#/etc/init.d/vsanmgmtd start

#/etc/init.d/vsanmgmtd status

Post Restart of vsanmgmtd service, vSAN License can be assigned. 

Additional Information

For More details on Licenses and its features refer vSAN License comparison.