On rare occasions, a legitimate license key from an enterprise Volume License Agreement (VLA) may be leaked. If you use such a key, VMware’s licensing servers may eventually detect multiple activations from different IP addresses and blacklist the key. Your ESXi host will then revert to an unlicensed state after a grace period.
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