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FMC03
Contributor
Contributor
‎02-02-2023 05:18 PM

ESXi Server 6.5 ISO

Hello everyone,

I am taking a VMWare course and I am trying to download ESXi Server 6.5 from the VMWare site but I am unable to download it as the download button is greyed out (see image attached).

Can anyone share a download link?

Thanks again

FM

ESXi 6.5.png

 

 

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scott28tt
VMware Employee
VMware Employee
‎02-03-2023 02:38 AM

As it is no longer a supported version, the download is only available to those customers who have bought a license.

And they shouldn't be providing anyone else with the binaries.

 


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FMC03
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‎02-03-2023 07:46 AM

Thank you for getting back to me. 

I am running VMware player 17 and created a VM and added the ESXi 8 ISO so It can boot from it but it doesn't recognize the OS.

Have you seen this before?

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Sid-J
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Contributor
‎03-29-2023 10:11 PM

Hi,

You can try with trail version of ESXi server 6.5 iso. First you need to register this product with your account then only you are able to download this iso file.

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