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WAEL
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Is ESXi 6 free?

Hi

Is ESXi 6 free? or is there a free version of it? I believe in the past previous versions used to be.

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MrSpock77
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You may evaluate it for 60 days.

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MrSpock77
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You may evaluate it for 60 days.

Johan

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WAEL
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What is the difference between vSphere hypervisor and ESXi?

We are a small business and I would be using this to host a Windows 2012 R2 and a two or 3 windows 7 machines. Cost is critical.

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npadmani
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please refer following KB

VMware KB: Product offerings for vSphere 6.x

this will let you see difference between free hypervisor and licensed vSphere editions.

in vSphere 6 also, free hypervisor is there like previous versions.

Narendra Padmani VCIX6-DCV | VCIX7-CMA | VCI | TOGAF 9 Certified
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vThinkBeyondVM
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As pointed in KB in last comment, you will get the difference. I would like to specify that 60 days evaluation gives you enterprise plus license features. 


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RanjnaAggarwal
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vSphere is VIrtualization Suite that includes ESXi and It's features. ESXi is an OS that offers Virtualization Layer a.k.a Hypervisor.

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SavkoorSuhas
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You have a free Trial with full ESXi features for 60 days, after that you need to license the host.

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