Is this true? What happens if the 60 days expires before you activate? Can you still activate, and just not use the VMs prior to activation? Or is the warning above real, and if you fail to activate during the demo period the host is somehow bricked?ģ: The customer is buried in issues right now, many related to the IT consultants, who among other things allowed a server failure to happen and took a week to recover. This makes no sense to me, as then why would VMware provide free version license keys in my account? Can someone verify if this is true or not?Ģ: I found a web site somewhere (can't provide a link at the moment) that said something to the effect of 'you must activate the license during the demo period', but it felt a bit like a translation error. Now we just need to activate the Free Version license, since the 60 day demo is ending.ġ: The IT consultants say the 60 day demo will automatically convert to the free license at the end of the demo period. Long story short, after years of misery we repurposed an old BIM workstation, got ESXi installed, and now have a VM that is perfectly functional. Reason being, I have a client with totally incompetent IT consultants, who after 4 years STILL can provide a VM host that is stable and performant.

I have my own VMware account that I set up when I needed to download the ESXi 6.7 installer to test on a Parallels VM, so I understood the install process.

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