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Re-arm ESXI Evaluation License

Needed to get a little more time out of my ESXI trial so that I could migrate it to Hyper-V.

This pair of commands came in very handy and gave another 60 days:

rm -f /etc/vmware/vmware.lic /etc/vmware/license.cfg

reboot

To use them, you need to:

Put your ESXI server into Maintenance Mode

  1. Enable Secure Shell access (SSH)
  2. Enable Console Access
  3. Then ssh to the server (in Windows 11 you can just type ssh username@serveripaddress and then enter password)
  4. Otherwise, you could use something like PuTTY (https://www.putty.org/)

Hope this helps.

 

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