Alarm 'Your host license expires in 0 days. The host will disconnect from vCenter Server when its license expires' is triggered while rebooting a stateless ESXi host

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• ESXi hosts are managed by Auto Deploy.
• Upon rebooting these ESXi hosts, below message can be seen in the vCenter:
  
  'Your host license expires in 0 days. The host will disconnect from vCenter Server when its license expires'


• This alarm is reset when the ESXi host connects back to the vCenter after a reboot.
• Third party Monitoring software capture this alert and send the email notifications to the users which causes a panic.

Environment

• VMware vCenter Server 8.x
• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.x

Cause

Auto Deploy sets a one day evaluation period for all stateless hosts which are rebooted after their evaluation period of 60 days had expired. This triggers a alert in the vCenter which is captured by the monitoring software.

Resolution

Broadcom Engineering is aware of this issue. This issue will be fixed in a future patch release for vCenter 8.x and ESXi 8.x.