3/15/2024 0 Comments Esxi license free core![]() ![]() (Hint: you could build a cheap home system for about $1,000 that had 24 GB of RAM and 4 cores.)īut now, there are reports that VMware has made the free version of vSphere 5 Hypervisor (essentially it’s ESXi 5.0 renamed) absolutely useless by limiting the total amount of RAM to 8 GB per host. I was about to publish an article called “So You Want To Build an ESXi System?” on how to build a cheap home system. It’s fine for a lab environment, and perfect for a home lab where I need to test a lot of systems. The free license runs full blown ESXi with some limits, such as no vmotion, no HA, no vCenter integration, etc. Many techies such as myself have been running ESXi 4.1 in our home labs. Update 8/4/11: Woohoo! They’ve up’d it to 32 GB of vRAM allocation (and max 32 GB of physical RAM too). ![]() Update 9/8/11: Check out my guide for building/buying an inexpensive ESXi host
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