Hi all, I’m really enjoying using docker in my test lab (with a view to also using it in Prod!) and I’m having a go at using docker-machine to spin-up/manage docker servers using an ESXi 5.5 box. However when I try to interact in any way with the ESXi host (i.e. create datastore folder, create mach…

Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation

hbokh (Henk) December 6, 2015, 4:04pm 2

Bump.
AFAIK this is because “govc” is being used by Docker, to communicate with VMware.
For this you need a (vCenter) licence, indeed…

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