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I believe we DO have a VMotion license but if you can help me determine that it would be great.
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Right Click the VM, and select Migrate, follow the wizard and select the new hosts you want to migrate to.<br />
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Does it work?<br />
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Do you get the options to migrate live?
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One VM motioned perfectly. &nbsp;The next gives me this error:<br />
&quot;Virtual machine &quot;machinename&quot; on host &quot;IPADDRESS&quot; would violate a virtual machine - host affinity rule&quot;
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You have VMware DRS turned on, and you have an affinity rule created which &quot;locks&quot; that VM to the Host.<br />
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Edit the Cluster (Right Click - Cluster - Edit)<br />
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Change the Affinity Rule.
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I have a Host that may need to replaced because of a pending hardware failure. &nbsp;I have about 6 VM's on that Host. &nbsp;What are the steps I need to take to get the VM's on another Host without interrupting the users?
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I have a Host that may need to replaced because of a pending hardware failure.  I have about 6 VM's on that Host.  What are the steps I need to take to get the VM's on another Host without interrupting the users?

Steps to VMotion VM's to another Host

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.