Hey All,
The 60 evaluation has expired on my ESXi host (5.0.0.623860) which runs a couple of VMs. The VMs were setup to autostart when the Host stated, but now the evaluation has finished, the VM no longer autostart.
In addiiton, I ran a simple scipt using PowerCLI. All this did was to shot down issue a Host shutdown command, which in turn shutdown the VMs gracfully, then shut down the host: The script command were:
Connect-VIServer -server mysESXiHost -User root -Password xxxxxxx
Stop-VMHost mysESXiHost -Confirm:$false -force
If I run these command from the PowerCLI propmt, I see the following error:
Stop-VMHost : 08/12/2012 17:01:52 Stop-VMHost fault.RestrictedVersion
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+ Stop-VMHost <<<< mysESXiHost -Confirm:$false -force + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Stop-VMHost], RestrictedVersi on + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VmHostServiceImpl_ShutdownVmHost_ViErro r,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.StopVMHost
From what I have read, I thought ESXi even running in the Free licence should still allow these things to happen, or am I mistaken?
Chris