"not enough licenses" from VC is deceiving

error: “not enough licenses” 2. The vpxa log file seemed to point to a vmID192 having problems with accessing datastore. [2007-06-21 16:19:25.485 ‘App’ 84306864 warning] ============BEGIN FAILED METHOD CALL DUMP============
[2007-06-21 16:19:25.485 ‘App’ 84306864 warning] Invoking [GetConfig] on [vim.VirtualMachine:192]
[2007-06-21 16:19:25.485 ‘App’ 84306864 warning] Fault has an empty message
[2007-06-21 16:19:25.485 ‘App’ 84306864 warning] ============END FAILED METHOD CALL DUMP============
[2007-06-21 16:19:25.485 ‘App’ 84306864 error] [vm.GetConfig] Received exception in GetConfig: vmodl.fault.SystemError
[2007-06-21 16:19:28.803 ‘App’ 84306864 error] [VpxaVmprovUtil] Unable to lookup datastore EVA4000_VI3_VMFS6
[2007-06-21 16:19:28.803 ‘App’ 84306864 error] [vm.GetConfig] Received exception in GetConfigSnapshot: vim.fault.InvalidDatastorePath
[2007-06-21 16:19:28.950 ‘App’ 84306864 error] GetResult failed: not well-formed (invalid token)
[2007-06-21 16:19:28.950 ‘App’ 84306864 warning] 3. Looked at the vmInventory.xml file to find which VM that vmID belonged to. 4. Looked at the vmx file of this VM. One of the parameters SMBIOS.reflecthost had garbled information. Changed SMBIOS.reflecthost=TRUE 5. In order for the VM to take this value we did vmware-cmd Vmname setconfig SMBIOS.reflecthost=TURE. 6. Now we could add the host back into the VC server.]]>

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