After the dramatic licensing mix up with ESX and ESXi yesterday, VMware was quick to respond with a blog post from their CEO. In short, the issue was caused because the time switch was not removed when update 2 went into release mode. VMware CEO Paul Martiz says that they are reevaluating their QA and [...]
Today, August 12th, 2008, is a bug in ESX 3.5U2. While ESXi is free… today your ESXi system will claim to be expired. This problem also affects ESX 3.5. The error message you will see is as follows:
Aug 12 10:02:10.792: vmx| http://msg.License.product.expired This product has expired.
Aug 12 10:02:10.792: vmx| Be sure that your host machine’s [...]
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