ESXi Free edition - limitations

[amvmware]

Can anyone answer the following questions pls.

1. Is there a detailed comparison of the differences between esxi and esxi free.

2. Can esxi free use shared storage such as a SAN or must the vmfs datastores be on local disks.

3. If i can use san storage for VMFS - Is there any issue with sharing this datastore with other esxi free servers or can the datastore only be access by a single esxi host.

Thanks.

[TobiasKracht · Accepted solution]

1.ESX vs ESXi

2. Yes, can.

3. Not a problem.

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[AntonVZhbankov]

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=100654...

There are no restrictions about SAN and VMFS.

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[vlho]

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/microsite.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1006543...

1/ ESXi free it is impossible join to vCenter

2/ RCLI and VMware Infrastructure toolkit are limited to read-only access for ESXi free

3/ The free version of VMware ESXi does not support SNMP

4/ The free version of VMware ESXi does not support Active Directory integration at this time

5/ max. 4 vCPU

No other limitations or diffrence...

[J1mbo]

The monitoring capabilities are much reduced in the free version - no alerting (need vcentre), no info on RAM deduplication etc etc.,

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