Same type thing happened with OnlineJFS on HP-UX last year. The permanent license expired and if you rebooted the box the file systems wouldn?t mount. From: "Jim Kenzig" [mailto:jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:44 AM To: THIN <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, virtualize <virtualize@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [THIN] If your VMWare ESX 3.5u2 Servers stopped running heres why http://www.deploylinux.net/matt/2008/08/all-your-vms-belong-to-us.html Jim Kenzig Blog: http://www.techblink.com