vSphere 5 is available

[Osm3um]

http://www.vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=ESXI50

Bob

[Osm3um]

Well, it was available, I downloaded the iso!  Looks like it is down now.

Bob

[Dave_Mishchenko]

What's interesting is that the build released at the link in your intial post is 456551, but one can also download the Hypervisor edition which is build  455964.

Dave
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[schepp]

I just downloaded build 469512 from that link

[arturka]

Works for me as well, thx for link

Link to full package

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0

Cheers
Artur

Please, don't forget the awarding points for "helpful" and/or "correct" answers.

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[nava_thulasi39]

Wow! Thanks.

[beaner1111]

Licensing appears to be a mess though.

I got a license for the Hypervisor free edition.

Says that I am limited to 32G ram... which I have

Says I am limited to 4 cores per CPU, which I have on two sockets, which respects the limit.

Still... I try to apply the license number they gave me... it says the license does not support the features on this machine (or something like that.)

I actually had to create a new account, because I was licensed for 4.1 and there was nowhere that I could get a serial for 5, or update the license, or add a new one etc etc.

Plus their descriptions for limitations and what works and what doesn't and everything is just an outright mess...

Argh....

[beaner1111]

The Dell T410 is listed as compatible yes.

[shubing]

Where can I download vSphere CLI for ESX5.0?

[t8z5h3]

it's says a single socket with upto 6 cores (you have a dull socket setup)

[beaner1111]

Where does it say that? I though I saw up to 2 cpu, up to 6 cores each somewhere.

[beaner1111]

Solved!

There was a bug with VMWare's license generation.

They fixed it this morning and I was able to get a valid, working license.