Licence warning during (planned) failover

Hi,

I think you need advanced replication license add-on:

https://www.nutanix.com/products/cloud-platform/software-options

In the note below the table on the page you find:

“This add-on license is applicable to Advanced Orchestration (Multiple Boot Stages, Script Execution, Re-IP, Test Failover), Metro Availability, Sync or NearSync Replication (RPO = or RPO = 1-15 min.).“

Hi,

We do not use near sync or sync replication, we only use async replication. We don’t use metro availability either. 
We don’t plan any of the Advanced Orchestration and none of our recovery plans have any of the Advanced Orchestration in the settings. 
So, as far as I can tell, for just async replication and simple failover (no advanced orchestration), we should be good. And we seem to be (during the planned failover). So why the warning? 

HI,

I understand the confusion but when a customer wants to use recovery plans I have always included Advanced Replication license. This I had again discussed 2 weeks ago with a Nutanix SE and he agreed that in that case Advanced Replication is needed. 

If you want to have an answer from Nutanix open a case and request there why you are getting an error or at least reach out to your Nutanix Partner SE / Nutanix SE.

Would be great if you get an official answer to post it here - thanks.

Yes advanced replication addon is needed for this. 

So, to add to this, I have multiple recovery plans (all set up by my colleague previously). 5 out of 6 plans were failing validation, one was not. 
I have switched categories for a couple of VMs, so they would be linked  to the successful plan, and the plan kept on being successful. 
However, when I added another category to this successful recovery plan, it started showing warnings as well. This has also continued after I have removed the newly added categories. 

So - how can some plans be failing, and another be successful… and then not being successful, when the only thing that changes was adding another category (linked to another protection policy)? 

Right, so I logged a ticket with Nutanix. 

They have confirmed we have Nutanix Pro, but don’t have the Advanced Replication licence.

However, they advised that this will not affect planned failovers. According to them:

‘It’s just a licence violation, it’s not a hardlock’. 

But when the hardlock kicks in you don’t have a valid license. I dont think that answer was a correct answer from support and that you should purchase the correct licensing. 

I think you hit this requirement: Advanced Orchestration with Runbook Automation.