Are vsphere 5 esxi host licenses only valid to use if they're under support, or can you continue to use the version you have in an unsupported state? I had someone from vmware email me that he was going to decommission our licenses because he thought we hadn't renewed. (we had, but the third party vendor we order from hadn't forwarded them over to vmware)
I never heard of anyone from vmware threatening to decommission license keys before so I figured I'd ask. I probably wouldn't even care if he hadn't sounded like such a douche in his email, but anyway, just curious how that works.
Unless I'm missing something, purchased licenses are perpetual licenses, no matter whether you have an active support and/or subscription.
André
Thanks for the reply Andre'. That's what I thought too. I'd really like to find out for sure though. Maybe I'll put in a ticket with vmware to ask.