VMAN Licensing Question

You can restrict the account that VMAN is using to communicate with your vCenter instance. Currently the account would have access to all of your hosts. If you block the account from having access to the non-critical servers in vCenter, VMAN won't see them and they won't draw down the licenses.

This is also mentioned on the VMAN licensing page here:

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/VMAN/Content/VMAN_Licensing_Model.htm 

Exclude hosts from monitoring

If there are not enough SolarWinds Virtualization Manager licenses to cover every powered on virtual machine managed by a vCenter server, change the access permissions of the vCenter user account to limit what it can access.

Restricting the virtual machines accessible by the user account reduces the number of virtual machines or sockets SolarWinds Virtualization Manager can collect data from. This way you can control which virtual machines are being monitored.

You can control access permissions in the VMware client by assigning the No Access role to the vCenter account for the hosts and virtual machines you want to restrict.

If I go to the Virtualization Settings/ VMWare Credential Library and edit the credential there is nothing in there about restricting access - just the credential name, user name and password. 

If I go to the Virtualization Settings/VMWare and select a host - it gives me the option to Manage This Node and at what address. If I select a mgt address I then see

VMware vCenter or Hyper-V devices:
Use to monitor VMware vCenters or standalone ESX or Hyper-V hosts.

Is this the deciding element? Then it asks for host type - VMWare. Then it asks for a credential. I get this error:

10.1.101.54 is already monitored through polling engine ORION-SP01.
View the node's details where you can edit properties and change the polling IP address.
Or, monitor 10.1.101.54 as a separate node by assigning to a different polling engine.

Can you please clarify the process to "change the access permissions of the vCenter user account to limit what it can access"? 

MediThwack Its actually done on the vCenter side and not within SolarWinds

You can control access permissions in the VMware client by assigning the No Access role to the vCenter account for the hosts and virtual machines you want to restrict.