{"id":185,"date":"2018-02-06T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zewwy.ca\/?p=185"},"modified":"2018-02-07T03:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T03:49:47","slug":"get-your-free-esxi-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2018\/02\/06\/get-your-free-esxi-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your Free ESXi here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get &#8217;em while they&#8217;re hot. Fresh from the bunnums of the internet!<\/p>\n<p>Now I love my ESXi, and I recently converted my old gaming rig into a hypervisor with non other than my favorite beast ESXi! I first played with 6.5, and don&#8217;t get me wrong the fact it was a direct login to the host right from a fresh install is such a thing of beauty. With a plugin available for a smoother console experience from the web driven one.  While the HTML5 based web interface is very slick, the console isn&#8217;t exactly 100% real time. With the plugins it&#8217;s a nice way around that, however the host management tasks are all locked down to the hosts HTML 5 web interface. So long goes any chance of using the old phat (.Net based) client. I have to say thats sad cause I LOVE the phat client, it is by far the smoothest of all management interfaces, in my experience.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, logging into my personal host&#8230; I see this<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/FP9Wq4a.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This of course doesn&#8217;t surprise me. However believe it or not you can continue to run ESXi completely free. It&#8217;s generally enough for most peoples needs, there however some limitations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No support<\/li>\n<li>Free ESXi cannot be added to a vCenter Server<\/li>\n<li>2 physical CPUs<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited cores per CPU<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited physical Memory<\/li>\n<li>max. 8 vCPU per VM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I won&#8217;t go over the details too much but the basics steps are as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sign up to VMware.com<\/li>\n<li>Goto the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vmware.com\/en\/group\/vmware\/evalcenter?p=vsphere-6\">vSphere Download Center 6.5<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vmware.com\/group\/vmware\/evalcenter?p=free-esxi5\">5.5.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Register, Download your ISO and grab your Key.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"dLqLSPteKl\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virten.net\/2016\/11\/free-esxi-6-5-how-to-download-and-get-license-keys\/\">Free ESXi 6.5 &#8211; How to Download and get License Keys<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Free ESXi 6.5 - How to Download and get License Keys&#8221; &#8212; virten.net\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virten.net\/2016\/11\/free-esxi-6-5-how-to-download-and-get-license-keys\/embed\/#?secret=TFGC2qM2Mm#?secret=dLqLSPteKl\" data-secret=\"dLqLSPteKl\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get &#8217;em while they&#8217;re hot. 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I first played with 6.5, and don&#8217;t get me wrong the fact it was a direct login to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2018\/02\/06\/get-your-free-esxi-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get your Free ESXi here!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[14,15],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypervisors","category-server-administration","tag-esxi","tag-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}