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OK thanks. So for clarity, if I were to go through the motions of correctly obtaining the registration code for SLES via the VMware web site page specifically for this (so entering my VMware key), and tried to enter those SLES registration details into the VM that was deployed from the standard SLES media, it would fail to register it ??
Thanks 
P.S. Your post seemed to change whilst I was replying. You must have edited like I just did!! FYI - We do have licences for both. I just need to put the procedures in place to ensure that correct media for VM's or physical is mandated. I need to be able to back this up. Humans can be lazy, and will just want to use the same media for everything. I want to make sure they dont if they should't 
I`m also seeking for clarification.
We have existing SLES installations and we want to use VMware SLES bundled subscription but do not want to reinstall all systems, especially not if it`s not clear what`s the exact technical difference between vmware sles and novell sles.
Have a look at http://communities.vmware.com/thread/401378
Furthermore, we had a ticket open for this, but the questions were not really answered and i should ask the presales team for the technical difference - but i guess i know why they do not answer, as they are SALES, so how should they know about the technical difference ?
i think it`s great that vmware comes with sles subscription, but introducing a second "not really clear what you get with it" brand of sles when there already are existing novell sles installations makes me scratch my head and i think it`s easier to spend the money for subscribing standard sles for the existing hosts and ditch vmware sles for making life easier (as we have novell sles on hardware, too)
furthermeore i remember i had a novell support-call months ago and one of the novell guy was discouraged using sles for vmware, but i don`t remember exactly why, it was something about release/patch cycles, iirc.
regards
Roland
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2012 19:30
An: 'presales@vmware.com'
Betreff: exact technical difference between standard SLES and SLES for VMware
Hello,
as VMware Support could not answer my question about the technical difference between normal SLES and SLES for VMWare and i was recommended to ask presales, i`m hereby asking if you could answer this question.
Background:
We already have a couple of standard SLES virtual machines and we need to make a decision if we should switch entirely to VMWare for SLES or not. I see that VMware SLES may behave different from standard SLES, i.e. oracle installation needs quirks etc....
We do not want to have two different brands of SLES in production and we do not want to have 2 different ways of subscription for that. So we want either only standard SLES or SLES for VMware, but switching to the latter is hard to do (because of existing VMs)
Furthermore, we wonder if we could use the VMware for SLES subscription for receiving updates for the normal SLES installations we already have, as we do not want to reinstall all our existing systems because of subscription change. We would continue using standard SLES, but with VMWare SLES subscription. Apparently this is not possible, because SLES for VMWare is a special OEM brand not supported by novell!?
Maybe you can confirm that (or change it), because it sucks to have two SLES11 brands in parallel and it also sucks to reinstall all existing systems because of patch subscription. At least we need to know about the technical difference. I searched the net and asked in vmwar community, but to no avail.
Btw, the SR# was: 12177340605.