Esxi 6 Free Limitations

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Have you ever wondered about the FREE version of vSphere and what limitations there are? I have created the below summary of limitations that are associated to the free version. For those using it for a home or test lab, the free version may do the trick for you. But even if using it for those situations, you still need to understand the limitations you have. One aspect to keep in mind especially is that the free version DOES NOT come with any type of technical support for it which is critical to understand!

Because of the below list of limitations and there not being any technical support for it, I highly recommend it not be used in corporate environments even in their Test/Dev labs! Instead, if you are trying to reduce the costs associated to vSphere licensing and have a limited budget, I would recommend that you look at the vSphere Essentials Kits which are very reasonably priced and offer two editions (Essentials & Essentials Plus). These offer you the ability to get support for them so if using in a production environment, you can be assured to get support from VMware to help keep your environment up and running at all times!

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Re: 6 ESXi free version has some limitation to hardware sysadmit Mar 14, 2016 2:59 AM ( in response to datadotcom ) The limitations of the free version of ESXi 6 are the same as version 5.5. In this article, I took a closer look at limitations of ESXi 6.7 U1 licenses. Everything seems to look just as it was before. Based on this, ESXi Free still seems to be great for home labs regardless of its limitations. Evaluation, in its turn, allows getting familiar with all ESXi features. I think 60 days is enough to let you love the hypervisor. Know What Features Limitations There Are With The 'Free' Version Of ESXi/vSphere! Have you ever wondered about the FREE version of vSphere and what limitations there are? I have created the below summary of limitations that are associated to the free version. For those using it for a home or test lab, the free.

Essentials Kit – Edition Comparisons:

  1. Apr 23, 2013  “ESXi Free vs Paid – What are the differences?” No place in this article nor its links does it spell out the differences between 6.5 free and paid. ESXi Free: – 2 physical CPUs – Unlimited cores per CPU – Unlimited physical Memory – max. 8 vCPU per VM.6.5 comes with a nice HTML5 interface that mimics the Windows client.
  2. What’re the limitations of the ESXi 6.x Free Edition – the VMware vSphere Hypervisor? The free version of the VMware vSphere Hypervisor – ESXi 6.x, has got some limitations. I know it’s been discussed on many places already, but I’m still getting questions about that and so I wanted to.

Dragon age origins mods downloads. Essentials Kits:

  • vSphere Product Page (Compare Tab) –http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere.html
  • VMware Store (Essentials Kit) –http://store.vmware.com/store/vmware/en_US/buy/productID.282883900&src=eBIZ_LandingPage_vSphereEssentials_Buy_US
  • VMware Store (Essentials Plus Kit) –http://store.vmware.com/store/vmware/en_US/buy/productID.285644500&src=eBIZ_LandingPage_vSphereEssentialsPlus_Buy_US

FREE vSphere – Limitations Summary:

  • No vMotion
  • No Fault Tolerance (FT)
  • No vSAN
  • Maximum of (2) physical CPU’s allowed per host
  • No built-in monitoring
  • NO Microsoft Active Directory (AD) integration
  • CANNOT be managed by a vCenter Server

Free Esxi Limits

Removed Limitations in vSphere 6.x:

  • Starting in vSphere 6.x, they removed the 32GB RAM limitation, it is now unlimited physical RAM

Additional Info:

  • Free vSphere Download: https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi6
  • vSphere Community Discussion: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/520560

VMware vSphere 5.5 Hypervisor (Free ESXi) limitations

Rukh zindagi song download akhil. VMware vSphere 5.5 hypervisor free version specifications are as follows:

  • The limitation of 32GB RAM limit per server/host has been removed from the free hypervisor.
  • It supports unlimited number of physical CPUs per host.
  • It supports unlimited number of cores per physical CPU.
  • It supports maximum 8vCPUs per virtual machine.
  • Operating system support: Microsoft OS (18 versions), Linux (54 versions), Mac OS X 10, Solaris, Free BSD etc.

The following figure illustrates that on applying a free license towards VMware vSphere 5.5 Hypervisor, it shows no limit on RAM, as it was shown with former versions (RAM limit: 32GB), and it shows support for unlimited physical CPUs and unlimited cores per CPU.

To check VMware Hardware compability matrix, use the following link:

Esxi 6.0 Free Hypervisor Limitations

To check VMware Software compability matrix, use the following link:

Nero Express 6 Free Download Burn

For detailed VMware vSphere 5.5 Documentation, use the following link:

Vmware Esxi 6 Free Version Limitations

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html