vCenter not full licensed in VCF Operations

Products

• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

This article provides steps to address licensing warning against vCenter server under Fully Licensed as 'No'. The warning message looks similar to;

 

Apart from the image shown above, following validation steps confirms license type:

• Sign into VCF Operations → Navigate to License Management  → Licenses  → Version 9+  → under vCenter Systems section the license for the vCenter instance is marked for the "Fully Licensed" column is "No" 
• Sign into vCenter → Licensing  → Version 9+ Licenses → Viewing the license details the column "Add-on License Name" is marked as "Evaluation"  → the column "Fully Licensed" is marked as 'No" 

Environment

VCF Operations 9.0.x

Cause

Partial license has been applied to vCenter server instance only. If vSAN (TiB) license is not applied, the warning message is shown.

Resolution

When you purchase VCF Operations and have version 9+ license , you receive both a VCF (core) license and a vSAN (TiB) license.   Both licenses must be assigned to vCenters that are running vSAN in order to correctly entitle the vCenter, to resolve this please apply the vSAN (TiB) license as an add on license.  You can use the following KB as a guide Online VCF 9 ADD-ON Licensing for vSAN .

 

Additional Information

• VCF Operations is successfully registered with VCF Business Console as per documentation Registering VCF Operations with the VCF Business Services console 
• License is already added in VCF Operations as per documentation Add a License to VCF Operations 
• Primary license is assigned to the vCenter instance as per documentation Assign a Primary License to a vCenter Instance