script to revoke per socket license

There is the answer in the forums which is not possible.

Well, @MicoolPaul , you are asking about scenarios where it might be helpful to automatically revoke socket licenses? Here is one: our VMWare admins did a re-design of their vCenters according to where VMs are located (which vCenter and/or host). At the same time old ESXi hosts were removed, and new more powerful ones got installed. It took them quite a time to do all that and for me the result was that my Veeam servers ran out of licenses because ESXi hosts would consume licenses even if they no longer were hosting any VMs. On the other side new hosts came up consuming licenses that were not (yet) available. You get the picture? Of course, this scenario wouldn´t happen every now and then but it drew me crazy to revoke licenses manually daily for a couple of weeks. What I would expect is that Veeam would do the housekeeping automatically as soon as the last VM vanishes from an ESXi host.

Hi @Michael.Haendl, I understand your point, I’m unsure if it relates to Oscar’s requirement to run before every replication job, hence the request for additional scope from them.

Veeam don’t offer any PowerShell or REST access for license revoking so it would remain manual for now, at least until instance licensing is used and then it wouldn’t matter in this scenario…

In your specific scenario, as there’s the risk of a vMotion still taking place to evacuate a host during a backup window and thereby having a genuine license exceeded moment, for such a project I’d ask my Veeam Account Manager to temporarily provide me with an overage on my license if possible, or factor this limitation into my host migration plan.

What are you specifically looking to do?  What you have asked is not clear.