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ONTAP Select Protocol Licenses Missing on vSAN ESA Clusters

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Applies to

  • ONTAP Select (cluster versions 9.15.1 and earlier)

  • ONTAP Select Deploy 9.17.1 and higher (e.g., 9.18.1, 9.19.1)

  • VMware vSAN ESA (Express Storage Architecture) datastores

  • Capacity Pool Licensing

Issue

After deploying a new ONTAP Select cluster using a Capacity Pool license on a VMware vSAN ESA datastore via ONTAP Select Deploy 9.17.1 or higher, protocol and feature licenses (NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, SnapMirror, SnapVault, SnapRestore, FlexClone, NVMe-oF, Volume Encryption) are missing from the cluster.

Symptoms:

  • Running license show displays only the CapacityPool license:

cluster::> license show
Serial Number: 33XXXXXXX
Owner: License Manager (10.XX.YYY.Z)
Installed License: -
Capacity: -
Package           Type     Description           Expiration
----------------- -------- --------------------- -------------------
CapacityPool      capacity-per-term
                           Capacity Pool License 5/17/2027 23:59:59

  • Protocol operations fail due to missing feature licenses. For example, SnapMirror initialization fails with the following error:

cluster::> snapmirror initialize *:

Error: command failed on source-path "src_vol:" destination-path "dst_vol:": SnapMirror_DP license check failed for cluster cluster_name. Reason: Package "SnapMirror" is not licensed in the cluster.. You cannot create and initialize a new SnapMirror relationship.

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