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How to Convert Virtual Center from Evaluation to Licensed Version
Posted by on April 10, 2008
or “How to convert virtual centre from evaluation to licenced version”… for us Brits… the “American English” is to help the international Googlers 🙂
I can’t believe I missed this, on a couple of platforms I’ve built I’ve had to start with an eval licence and then move to a proper licence but could never find how to change virtual center from eval to licenced mode.
ESX itself was fine you can do that via the VC GUI (below)
But despite a lot of googling I could never find out how to set Virtual Centre itself to use a licence server – so I ended up reinstalling/repairing and then selecting the option to use a licence server, my bad – it’s actually in the VI client GUI d’oh as Homer would say!
for my own reference, and for anyone else who has missed and is searching for how to convert Virtual Center from evaluation to licensed..
and then configure the setting here to point it at a proper licence server to enable full VC.
D’oh!!!
Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between 
Thanks buddy!!
googling this query didnt help, after a long struggle i was able to fetch this article , it was real helpful
Thanks for this, I was pulling my hair out trying to find this as well!
Thanks for your posting… Doh for me too !
Daz
Thanks for your post. Sorted out my problem.