You can enable license rules to help you conserve license consumption for a Cluster Agent when the system cannot detect its vCPU information. In such cases, the Cluster Agent without the vCPU information will be rejected and not registered, so you can avoid consuming a license for the agent.

For example, an agent will request to be registered every minute and will be rejected for up to ten minutes while waiting for vCPU information from a host. If no vCPU information has been received after 10 minutes, the agent will fall back to use the default license units. An agent will be allowed to report data as soon as it's registered. If no license units are available, then the agent will be rejected.

To enable the Wait for vCPU Information Before Registering Agents setting: