You lose all of the non-free features and you cannot start or manage VM's. The essentials kit which includes licenses for up to (3) 2-socket hosts is ~$500. You don't get vMotion or any storage HA related features with Essentials, but you do get vCenter Server, templates, backup API, etc.
Josh On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:29 PM, David via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > Anyone using vmware 5.5 evaluation ? > What happens when you ur eval expires? > how much is the essentials license? > > > -- >