Because of the issues and bad reviews of the new vCenter 5.1
SSO, they decided to hold off on upgrading their VMware environment until the
next version, but they still wanted to take advantage of the deal so they could
license the additional components. Unfortunately, the new licenses do not
work in their 5.0 environment. You can provide a version downgrade from vSphere
5.1 to vSphere 4, but there isn’t an option to downgrade to version 5. VMware is trying to figure out how to resolve the issue, but right now there doesn't seem like a simple solution
I thought I would pass along the information in case you
are planning on upgrading your licensing and don’t intend on
upgrading your software.