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sudanA
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Will the Free ESXi Hypervisor license expires?

I recently downloaded the ESXi Hypervisor Free edition. Now i need to know whether the given license during the download will expire in a period of a time or we can use it continuously. Also there was nothing mentioned about any expiration of the given key while downloading. Thanks in advance.

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schepp
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Hi and welcome to the communities,

I think it won't expire, but you can check by connecting with the vSphere client to the ESXi host, to to configuration -> licensed features.

It either shows an expiration date there or just says "never".

Tim

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a_p_
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Welcome to the Community,

The free Hypervisor license doen't expire. Just make sure you enter the license key, otherwise the host will run in a 60-day evaluation mode.

André

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