Shutdown VM in ESXi free 6 limited?
It seems that I can not stop a VMa VM with ESXi 6 free licenses:
VI-admin@VMA:~ > vmware-cmd - H xxxx - xxxx xxxx /vmfs/volumes/56ef14b0-0e8222ea-66cc-001517fd91a4/zoneminder/zoneminder.vmx soft stop Pei U
Cannot perform the operation:
SOAP fault:
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Error string: the current licence or ESXi version prohibited the execution of the requested operation.
Lack of details: RestrictedVersionFault
If the free license is really limited to exercise such a function of base, or am I missing something?
Yes, the free license will restrict you making use of a product that will call APIs to perform operations.
vMA, PowerCLI etc. cannot really be used to manage the free ESXi hypervisor.
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