Due to my misunderstanding how the licensing works for fennel's ESXi server, our license lapsed the other day and we were unable to restart a VM.

For future reference, we now have to pay a fee for academic licenses for VMware products. We just got a 3 year subscription for ~$800 after taxes. What this provides is a 3 year lifespan on our "web store". Any approved HCMC user (right now this is only me) can go to the web store and download a 'free' copy of most VMware offerings. The ESXi server license I just downloaded says there is a 1 year term on the license (it looks like it's a full calendar year plus, it expires on Dec. 31/2013), so we'll need to head back to the store next December and get a whole new license - it doesn't get renewed.

Our WebStore URL: http://e5.onthehub.com/WebStore/Welcome.aspx?vsro=8&ws=2f6647eb-e7a0-df11-ad57-0030487d8897

Oct 18, 2013: I applied for, and received a new activation code for ESXi server and sent in a request to sysadmin to apply it.