Unable to power on VMs due to expired ESX license
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I knew ESX alone is free. Although I always get “License Expired” warning at the right bottom of my vSphere, as long as I can still use it, I never thought about fix it. Today I rebooted it after enabled a feature, and found I can no longer power up my VMs, due to license issue. I didn’t have a chance to take any screen dump.
I followed these two posts from https://communities.vmware.com/message/2305075 and solved this problem, once for all. Thanks for sharing!
Once you login to download the product, you are provided with a licence key - see image below.
"Open vSphere client, then select host icon and open Configuration tab.
Under Software list, open Licensed Features and at the upper right corner, click on Edit…
Select “Assign a new license key to this host”, then insert your own free license key provided you by VMWare site.“