Advice for WAAS Central Manager?

Hello,
We are building a WAAS lab (not production) for a customer and we recently discovered that we can't use the NME-WAE-502-K9 as the central manager which was very affordable.  So we are very disappointed about this.  The other equipment are Cisco ISR 2811 (very affordable for building WAAS) with NME-WAE-502-K9 running WAAS 4.1.1 acting as the application accelerators.  I have some questions and asking for some advice about some alternative options for us to consider:
What is the cheapest/smallest WAAS option we can use for the WAAS central manager?  The only thing I could find is the WAE-512-K9, but maybe there is something else that is smaller and cheaper for consideration. 
From what I read, after WAAS software version 4.1.1 it requires the Enterprise and Transport Licencing.  Does the WAAS central manager have a 30,60, or 90 day trial that the CM can run before a license is required like most of the Cisco Unified Communications products today?
Thanks in advanced!
-rya

A central manager is required to managed all of your accelerators properly in a supported configuration. You don't necessarily need a physical appliance though. There is also the virtual form factor (vWAAS is the accelerator version and vCM is the manager version) that can run on a ESXi hypervisor.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/waas/waas/vwaas/guide/vwaasguide.html#wp69212
John
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