How many free ESX can I run?

[rightfoot]

I am trying out the free ESXi server right now but prefer to have a couple of them going for fail over. I tried to download another, thinking I might be given another code but was not given one. Should I be using the same license for as many as I'd like to run or something else?

Mike

[weinstein5]

I believe you can use the same code as many times as you want

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[maishsk]

You will be able to use as many instances that you have received licenses for (I think the Maximum was 999)
Maish

Systems Administrator & Virtualization Architect

[rightfoot]

So, guessing you mean number of CPU's then. So any number of machines, up to 999 CPU's.

Now I'm curious, Is this guest CPU's or host/servers?

Mike

[weinstein5]

It would be hosts - ESXi and ESX are licensed per CPU -

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[Dave_Mishchenko]

Your discussion has been moved to the ESXi forum

Dave Mishchenko

VMware Communities User Moderator

[rightfoot]

Perfect, sounds good, thanks very much. Now I know I can run multiple servers without issues.

Mike