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ESX Server 3 and VirtualCenter Installation Guide

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Table 3‐4listsVirtualCenterlicensedoperationsthatarepermittedwhenthelicense

serverisunavailable.

Operationsthatarenotpermittedareoperationsthatrequiretheacquisitionofnew

licensesfromthelicenseserver.

Table 3-4. Permitted VirtualCenter Operations When the License Server Is

Unavailable

Component Attempted Action

When

License

Server Is

Unavailable

VirtualCenter Server RemoveanESX Serverhostfrominventory(seenext

entry).

Permitted

AddanESX Serverhosttoinventory. NotPermitted

Connect/reconnecttoanESX Serverhostin

inventory.

Permitted

Moveapowered‐offvirtualmachinebetweenhosts

ininventory(coldmigration).

Permitted

MoveanESX Serverhostamongfoldersin

inventory.

Permitted

MoveanESX Serverhostoutof

aVMotion‐DRS‐HA

cluster(seenextentry).

Permitted

MoveanESX ServerhostintoaVMotion‐DRS‐HA

cluster.

NotPermitted

ConfiguretheVirtualCenter ServerwithVI Client. Permitted

StartVMotionbetweenhostsininventory. Permitted

ContinueloadbalancingwithinaDRScluster. Permitted

Addorremovelicensekeys. NotPermitted

NOTEIfyoureleaselicensesforlicensedfeatureswhilethelicenseserveris

unavailable,thereleasedlicensescannotberedistributeduntilthelicenseserver

becomesavailableagain.For example,ifyouremovethenetworkadapterassociated

withVMotionwhilethelicenseserverisunavailable,thatVMotionlicenseisreleased

andisunavailable

untilthelicenseserverisavailableagain.Removingahostfromthe

VirtualCenterinventoryorremovingahostfromaclusterhasasimilareffect.