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Changing Licensing mode from Single Host to License Server

I have two servers running ESX 3, and VirtualCenter server installed. When I setup the first ESX server, I setup it up in Single Host mode for the license, and got 16 VMs running happily on it. Now I am setting up my second ESX server, and got license manager running, with the license file there. The second server is sucessfully seeing the license from there.

My question is, if I change the first server from using Single Host license mode, to be in License Server mode, will that cause any interruption to my existing VMs that are running? Do I need to schedule downtime, shutdown each VM, etc. ?

Thanks,

Mike

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ascari
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Hi Mike

absolutely no down time to change license mode from host to server. You can do it when you want and it's very easy.

Bye Alberto

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Hi Mike

absolutely no down time to change license mode from host to server. You can do it when you want and it's very easy.

Bye Alberto

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Thanks Smiley Happy

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