Hi,
Here and there I see selles (usually) on ebay selling vsphere licenses which are with no support and no upgrades available. Usually they have some descriptions like "pulled off an old server" / "was attached to hardware bundle which doesn't need vsphere" or similar.
While there are such OEM licenses for Windows OS and they are legal to sell (at least in Europe), I never heard of similar VMware vsphere licenses.
I suspect that these keys are somehow created with key-generators, however if there really have been OEM licenses with no support and no upgrade pathes, such licenses could be interesting for me as a one-shot buy for my home server (in comparison to the VMware Users group subscriptions).
Any hints on that?
Thanks,
Daniel
Here and there I see selles (usually) on ebay selling vsphere licenses which are with no support and no upgrades available. Usually they have some descriptions like "pulled off an old server" / "was attached to hardware bundle which doesn't need vsphere" or similar.
While there are such OEM licenses for Windows OS and they are legal to sell (at least in Europe), I never heard of similar VMware vsphere licenses.
I suspect that these keys are somehow created with key-generators, however if there really have been OEM licenses with no support and no upgrade pathes, such licenses could be interesting for me as a one-shot buy for my home server (in comparison to the VMware Users group subscriptions).
Any hints on that?
Thanks,
Daniel