I installed the "free" VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5 on my server. When completed it warned me about my 60-day trial, which startled me, but I double checked and it VMware listed it as free. Now, 45 days in, I am getting email titled "Your VMware vSphere and vSphere Storage Appliance 60-Day Trial is Ending." I was deploying a free Egnyte virtual appliance. Did I misunderstand something. I have retraced my steps and it is listed under the Free Products heading on VMware's site. Now VMware is trying to sell me $10,000 of software. I am working in a production environment. If I have to abandon the last 45-days of progress it is going to cost me a lot of credibility at work. What are my options for deploying a virtual appliance an no cost. This feels like a bait-and-switch. Free trials are not ordinarily promoted as free software. If they were all software would be entitled to be labelled free.
