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Should your licensing expire, it will only stop you from being able to power-on or migrate VM's. &nbsp;Running VM's will not be shutdown.
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Should your licensing expire, it will only stop you from being able to power-on or migrate VM's.  Running VM's will not be shutdown.

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Here is a short VM vid on how too. You should be able to view this even if you're not logged in to Vmware.<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1010839" rel="ugc nofollow">http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1010839</a>
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Here is a short VM vid on how too. You should be able to view this even if you're not logged in to Vmware.
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1010839 [http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1010839]

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That is the KB I posted.<br />
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~coolsport00
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I keep getting a message that my license will expire in 8 days and that I need to add a license. &nbsp;I purchased VM Ware Essentials, but how do I add the license so that it will not shutdown?
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I keep getting a message that my license will expire in 8 days and that I need to add a license.  I purchased VM Ware Essentials, but how do I add the license so that it will not shutdown?

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VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.