Register to download your Free Product. I Have an Account; Create an Account VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 Download Center. This download center features technical documentation and installation guides to make your use of vSphere Hypervisor a success. Please login or create an account to access VMware vSphere Hypervisor license. What is a vSphere Hypervisor? VSphere Hypervisor is a bare-metal hypervisor that virtualizes servers; allowing you to consolidate your applications while saving time and money managing your IT infrastructure. Our free vSphere Hypervisor is built on the world’s smallest and most robust architecture: VMware vSphere ESXi, which sets the industry standard for reliability, performance, and support. VMware ESXi, a smaller-footprint version of ESX, does not include the ESX Service Console. It is available - without the need to purchase a vCenter license - as a free download from VMware, with some features disabled. ESXi stands for 'ESX integrated'. Click “License & download” and login with your vmware user account or register yourself a new one. Under “Option 2: Download ESXi” you will find the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 4.x License. Please see the following post if you came to find the license key for VMWare ESXi 5.1.
This a beginner question: I installed ESXi 6.5.0 on an HP Proliant 360p Gen8 server coming from Linux with KVM. I’d like to continue using ESXi but I noticed a warning saying my license will expire in 60 days. I’ve researched online and it’s not clear to me what’s the limitation on the free license. Is the free license limited on the number of sockets, cores, vCPUs, and/or VMs?
My server has 2 sockets, 8 cores each and 64GB RAM. Today I have 7 VMs running but I’m planning to create more.