vCenter: vCSA 5.1.0.10200 Build 1235310
Hypervisor 1: ESXi-5.1.0-799733-standard
Hypervisor 2 (image provided by Fujitsu for Fujitsu servers): (Updated) ESXi-5.1.0-799733-standard
I recently noticed that I couldn't do anything productive in vCenter: power on, power off, edit settings, practically anything. Still works fine when directly hitting the hypervisors. After digging and digging, I noticed - in the web client, rather than the thick client - that we've exceeded the "VMware vSphere 5 Essentials (vRAM)" license by 893150%. Not a typo! It says we have a purchased capacity of 0.01GB, and are using 44GB right now. Each host has 64GB of RAM, and Essentials is supposed to be licensed for 192GB, or so I understand it.
It's only the vanilla hypervisor that's reporting this overage, as a "second usage." It's also calling it "VMware vSphere 5 Essentials," while the Fujitsu one appends "(unlimited cores per CPU") and has N/A in the second usage column.
Could this be the reason that vCenter stopped working for me - some kind of license punishment? Even if not, any ideas on why this is even considered an overage? Thanks!
