More Licensing Issues with 3.x upgrade to 3.5

[czatts01]

I've upgraded my ESX 3.x Starter to 3.5 (which is now Foundation). I don't use a license server because I only have one ESX host. I've followed all the instructions for the upgrade and rebuilding the license files. I used the downloaded zip file, created a CD with the rpm's on it and issued the esxupdate command. The final status of the update was 0 (successful). After uploading the license host file, I get an error when I try to select the ESX server edition. My two choices are "Unlicensed" or "ESX Server Foundation". When I select "ESX Server Foundation" I get the following error:"There are not enough licenses insalled to prform the opration." I had enough licenses before I upgraded, not sure what could have happened after the upgrade. Any help would be great. Thanks.

Steve

[Full_Halsey]

How many procs does your ESX server have?

[czatts01]

It's a dell 6950 with 4 CPUs. I have (2) 2-processor licenses.

[Full_Halsey]

I had a similar issue last week. VMware licensing tech support informed me there is a bug using the license file method to licensing ESX server with 4 or more procs. They said an emergency patch was in the works. Their only solution was to run it in eval mode, which gives you 60 days.

[czatts01]

I'll do that for now. Thanks. I have an open call to them. They haven't responded to me yet.