License inventory monitoring Alarm is triggered in vCenter

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• License Inventory Monitoring Alarm is triggered in vCenter frequently
  

• In the licenses view(Administration>>Licenses) of vCenter UI, you will find one or more licenses where the license usage is greater than capacity
  
  
  
• /var/log/vmware/vpxd/vpxd.log reports below errors. 

MM DD HH:MM:SS  vpxd[7247]: Event [22921713] [1-1] [YYYY-06-16T02:52:04.983335Z] [vim.event.LicenseNonComplianceEvent] [error] [] [] [22921713] [License inventory is not compliant. Licenses are overused]


Environment

vCenter Server 8.0.3

Cause

This alarm is triggered when the consumption of any assigned license including (ESXi host, vSAN, or SRM) exceeds its allocated capacity within vCenter.

Resolution

To resolve the issue, 

• Correct the license assignments on the host to ensure that the license usage is reduced to a level that falls below the host's actual capacity.
• Remediate the license non-compliance by either assigning a higher-capacity license key or removing VMs from SRM Protection Groups to bring usage below the licensed limit..