Hello everyone,

I just got off the phone with VMware support to confirm a bug, if you are running Update 2 build 103908 you will not be able to power on VMs on August 12th

Here is a snippet from the vmware.log file from a particular VM:

Aug 12 00:52:24.025: vmx| VMXVmdb_LoadRawConfig: Loading raw config
Aug 12 00:52:24.029: vmx| Msg_Post: Home page info
Aug 12 00:52:24.029: vmx| http://msg.License.product.expired This product has expired.
Aug 12 00:52:24.029: vmx| Be sure that your host machine's date and time are set correctly.
Aug 12 00:52:24.029: vmx| There is a more recent version available at the VMware Web site: "http://www.vmware.com/info?id=4".
Aug 12 00:52:24.029: vmx|

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Aug 12 00:52:24.060: vmx| Module License power on failed.
Aug 12 00:52:24.060: vmx| VMX_PowerOn: ModuleTable_PowerOn = 0
Aug 12 00:52:24.238: vmx| vmdbPipe_Streams Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF
Aug 12 00:52:24.239: vmx| VMX idle exit
Aug 12 00:52:24.249: vmx| Flushing VMX VMDB connections
Aug 12 00:52:24.254: vmx| IPC_exit: disconnecting all threads
Aug 12 00:52:24.254: vmx| VMX exit (0).
Aug 12 00:52:24.254: vmx| VMX has left the building: 0.

The work around is to stop the NTP service and set the date to August 10th.

VMware support said that a patch will be released shortly.

Hope this helps!!

-bobby

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