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ESXi not free anymore?

Hi!

For some years ago VMWare release ESXi as a free hypervisior. you could install new VMs but you could't change settings on the VMs after.

This was very good to do some testing in a single-host enviroment.

I registred me, got the ESXi 5.5 and received a Licens-key. This have been very usefull in this small test-enviroment.

Now i wanted to test out ESXi 6.5 with the new vSphere Web-portal and download the 6.5U2. This is the last supported version for my old HP ProLiant DL360 G7 with Xeon E5506.

I tought to use this old server for this test-enviroment as long as the server lives.

Now it seems like ESXi is not free anymore. Can anyone confirm that ESXi is not free anymore?

Best regards,

Ronny Simonsen

Narvik - Norway