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Dell's customized version of ESXi 5.5

I just bought a Dell PowerEdge T320 for a home virtualization lab and installed Dells customized ESXi 5.5 hypervisor from (dell.com) on bare metal.  My question is does anybody know how to license this since it wasn't downloaded from vmware.com? 

Can I get away with installing ESXi directly from vmware and later manually installing the drivers to ensure compatibility with the Dell hardware?

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Dell customized ESXi 5.5 ISO uses a normal VMware ESXi license key provided by VMware.  It's a normal ESXi 5.5 install, but contains Dell drivers already so you don't have to worry about injecting drivers later on, etc. 

Ben Liebowitz, VCP vExpert 2015, 2016, & 2017 If you found my post helpful, please mark it as helpful or answered to award points.

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Dell customized ESXi 5.5 ISO uses a normal VMware ESXi license key provided by VMware.  It's a normal ESXi 5.5 install, but contains Dell drivers already so you don't have to worry about injecting drivers later on, etc. 

Ben Liebowitz, VCP vExpert 2015, 2016, & 2017 If you found my post helpful, please mark it as helpful or answered to award points.
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