Possible to downgrade ESXi license?

If having already installed a certain license to an ESXi host, is it possible to change this license at a lower license type?

(I know that a lot of things could go wrong if at all by using the features that can be deleted with the lower license, but I wonder if it's possible).

If you try to apply the license key 'lower' with features enabled that are not covered by this license, you receive an error message, and the license will not apply. I saw a few times with the licenses of Essentials where someone tried to vMotion in Eval mode and the VMkernel ports had not been removed before applying the license key.

André

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