Has anyone actually gotten SR-IOV to work on vSphere 6 using the free license? I've got the supermicro xeon D-1540 and when I configure SR-IOV for the 10GBE NICs and then add to a VM I get the following error:
"Failed to power on virtual machine FreeNAS. Cannot perform this operation due to a license restriction. Either the license edition of the ESXi host does not support this operation, or the vCenter Server system that manages the host has a license that restricts this operation through a direct connection to this host. Check the licensed features for the host or connect to vCenter Server and retry the operation. Click here for more details."
Digging further in the logs, it notes the following:
"State
Failed - Cannot perform this operation due to a license restriction. Either the license edition of the ESXi host does not support this operation, or the vCenter Server system that manages the host has a license that restricts this operation through a direct connection to this host. Check the licensed features for the host or connect to vCenter Server and retry the operation.
Errors
"Failed to power on virtual machine FreeNAS. Cannot perform this operation due to a license restriction. Either the license edition of the ESXi host does not support this operation, or the vCenter Server system that manages the host has a license that restricts this operation through a direct connection to this host. Check the licensed features for the host or connect to vCenter Server and retry the operation. Click here for more details."
Digging further in the logs, it notes the following:
"State
Failed - Cannot perform this operation due to a license restriction. Either the license edition of the ESXi host does not support this operation, or the vCenter Server system that manages the host has a license that restricts this operation through a direct connection to this host. Check the licensed features for the host or connect to vCenter Server and retry the operation.
Errors
- SR-IOV passthrough adapter is not supported with this license of the product.
- Failed to start the virtual machine."