Hi.
When I attempted to upgrade from vSphere 5.1 Free edition to vSphere 5.1 Essentials Kit, assigning the new key for the Essentials kit threw up the following:
ISSUE 1:
License Downgrade Warning - Some features will become unavailable after the license assignment.
Host: hostname.domain.local
From VMware vSphere 5 Hypervisor (xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx)
To Unlicensed
The following features will become unavailable:
* Up to 32 GB of memory
* Up to 8-way virtual SMP
To use these features in future, select a different license key.
ISSUE 2:
An error occurred when assigning the specified license key: License is not valid for this product.
Would you hve any pointers as to the issue? I had in my head (but am likely wrong) that the Essentials key had to be applied to specifically downloaded Essentials software?
Thanks in advance.