I have installed ESXi 5 on one of my HP servers. I have been using vSphere to monitor and control my VM's in it. I have been geting for the past 60 days to register my esxi or else i wont be able to monitor it, well i didnt register it because it always had a new number of days till it expired everytime i logged on. Well now i have booted up my HP server with ESXI 5 on it and it boots and loads esxi just find and sits at the screen where it tells you to "download tools to manage this host from: http:\\###.###.16.105/ (static)" the yellow and grey page. So everything looks ok, untill i try fireing up vSphere and connecting to it; it doesn't connect. Normally if i go into a internet browser and go to the address it goes to a page that links you to the download page of vSphere. Well it doesn't even go to that anymore. Everytime i put my registration code into register it; says product already registered. I have no clue what to do now i know the server is up and running fine. Just cant acess my ESXi 5, when i go into the logs and look to see my licence serial number it just says evaluation.
If anyone has any input i'd gladly appreciate anything.
Thanks,
Lance DeWitt.