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pepe_p
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Limitations and release notes

Greetings!

Im new with ESXi and looks good for me, or at least for doing a couple of things.

What limitations do i have? I want to setup a little lab with windows server 2012 and a couple of Linux VM. With the free license what can i do?

I tested out and what more catch my attention was the P2V with converter. And more imporant, i cant find release notes for 6.5.0a and update 1 is for paid version?

Thank you.

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msripada
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ESXi comes with 60 days trial version. Post that the license would be expired and need to have that updated in order to work

thanks,

MS

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pepe_p
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What about the scenario i wrote? Can esxi free handle it?

Thank you!

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daphnissov
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If all you want is to run some simple VMs then yes, ESXi free can do those things.

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pepe_p
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Thats good, but what about vgpu? I dont think free esxi could handle it, is it?

Thank you.

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Gavis4569
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vGPU support is not even in Standard edition, it is feature of Enterprise Plus edition only.

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vsphere/vmw-flyr-comparevsphereedi...

ESXi Free Limitations

  • You can’t Manage via vCenter Serve
  • Maximum 2 physical CPUs in Hosts
  • Maximum 8 vCPU Virtual Machines (VMs)
  • Locked APIs (only get/read operations)
  • No VMware Support
Martin Gavanda https://martingavanda.com https://learnvmware.online
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pepe_p
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  • Number of cores per physical CPU: No limit
  • Number of physical CPUs per host: No limit
  • Number of logical CPUs per host: 480
  • Maximum vCPUs per virtual machine: 8

This is what says on the main page. I guess they change it. Just enterprise for vgpu... thats too bad.

Thank you.

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