VMware Licensing is on many installation a big problem.

Believe me, it took me days and countless calls to VMware to get the licensing straight!!!

Here some possibilities to solve the problem.

•  Make sure you have the right licnse files (Host or license Serve)
• Make sure you have the Virtual Center license (it's not included in the infrasrtructure license!)

I fund the information below after I solved the problem, but it maight be of some help:

Open a cmd windows in the directory   C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware License Server and execute the statement below (make sure the path is right):

lmpath -add VMWARELM "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware License Server\vmware.lic"

Now all the the commandline tools of the license server will work.

Try: lmstat -h for help