VMWare licensing for testing enviroment

[ainsworth001]

Hi everyone,

I have a question regarding to vmware licensing. We purchased 3 VI 3.5 Enterpise licenses for our production enviroment. All are used up by 3 hosts

Recently, i built a testing lab that simulates production enviroment. My main purpose is testing all patches before applying to production. I used evaluation license but it only limited to 90 days.

Now my question is can i use one of license that i purchased earlier? If yes, would it affect anything on production enviroment? Do i breach any licensing agreement?

I know microsoft provide MSDN for testing purposes as long as not apply to live. It would be greate if VMWare has same option.

Thanks for you help,

Tan.

[kjb007]

You are required to license each ESX host, whether it is used for prod or development.

-KjB

VMware vExpert

[lamw]

Yes, you'll be breaching your VMware licensing contract. You'll need to either purchase additional license for your test environment or continue to reinstall an evaluation copy to run your tests.

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VMware vExpert 2009

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