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Tomatosan
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‎05-02-2023 12:58 PM
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Which VMware product should I be looking at?

I have zero experience with VMware products.  The hardware is HP DL380p G8 24-Core Server 2x E5-2697 v2 2.7GHz 384GB-16 8x 1.2TB SAS SFF.   I have a VM I want to run for commercial purposes.  I want everything on prem.
I am going to use redhat as the OS.  I want a semi production environment.  Should I be using exsi ?  or something else?
Any suggestions would help.  Thank you in advance

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a_p_
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‎05-02-2023 01:30 PM
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ESXi is definitely the right product for that use case. However, the DL380p Gen8 was only supported up to ESXi 6.5, which is out of support by now. Anyway, I saw reports by users, who successfully installed ESXi 7.0 (the HPE customized version) on the DL380p.

Even though the current ESXi version is 8.0, you can still register for a free Hypervisor license key at https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7.

André

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a_p_
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‎05-02-2023 01:30 PM
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ESXi is definitely the right product for that use case. However, the DL380p Gen8 was only supported up to ESXi 6.5, which is out of support by now. Anyway, I saw reports by users, who successfully installed ESXi 7.0 (the HPE customized version) on the DL380p.

Even though the current ESXi version is 8.0, you can still register for a free Hypervisor license key at https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7.

André