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  • 1.  vSphere 6.5 Essential Plus - Storage vMotion

    Posted Jan 25, 2018 11:48 AM

    I've 3 hosts with iSCSI shared storage and with local storage too.

    Temporary I need to move a VM from shared to local, but when I try to move the VM I got error about missing licensing to do Storage vMotion.

    But if I try to move from host1 shared storage to host2 local storage the process is allowed.

    Why I got this different behavior?

    Regards

    Luca



  • 2.  RE: vSphere 6.5 Essential Plus - Storage vMotion

    Posted Jan 25, 2018 11:54 AM

    Hi!

    Essentials Plus license doesn't have storage vmotion option.

    Are you sure that you have Essentials Plus license installed and assigned?

    Can you check Licesing tab on all hosts?



  • 3.  RE: vSphere 6.5 Essential Plus - Storage vMotion

    Posted Jan 25, 2018 11:59 AM

    Hello,

    yes I can confirm, I've 6.5 Essential Plus on 3 hosts and vCenter got with this license too.

    I've read something that if I use together compute and storage vMotion it's a "kind" of vMotion and it's the reason that it works...

    If I use just storage vMotion this isn't allow with Essential Plus...

    Luca



  • 4.  RE: vSphere 6.5 Essential Plus - Storage vMotion
    Best Answer

    Posted Jan 25, 2018 12:06 PM

    I haven't thinked about this before.

    However it shoud be true as enhanced vmotion (migrating both VM process and VM's disks) needs only vMotion license.