VMware made a long-anticipated move July 22 when it announced that its ESXi hypervisor would be free. That doesn’t mean VMware customers can avoid pricey fees for support and management tools, though.

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In the latest development following Broadcom’s November 2023 acquisition of VMware, the company has decided to kill off the free version of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor. A knowledge base article posted by ...

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Then I installed ESXi 5.1 onto a flash drive and... registered the host. OOPS. Like 90% of the available features disappeared thanks to using the free license. For example, I can no longer clone VMs ...