Operation Failed : There are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation.

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

An administrator reported protection group is complaining about insufficient license when trying to protect virtual machines.

Environment

VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.X
VMware Site Recovery Manager 9.X

Cause

The SRM license was showing expired in vCenter

Resolution

To remediate the issue, please follow below steps :

Step 1 : Navigate to Broadcom portal : Broadcom Support and click on My Entitlements and check for valid SRM license.
Step 2 : Remove the existing license from vCenter.
Step 3 : Assign the valid SRM license in both production and recovery vCenter
Step 4 : Perform reconfigure operation from both production and recovery SRM.
Step 5 : Perform re-connect operation