The good thing is, VMware are very loyal in ESXi licensing. With all that being said, it becomes clear why you just buy from VMware at some point even though you are potentially good to go with any of those free licenses. The latter, in its turn, has no time limits, but it lacks many cool hypervisor features. The former has a 60-day time limit, but it provides all the ESXi features. The thing is, both have several limitations that make them unfit for production use. I’ve mentioned in my previous post that there are actually two free ESXi versions: Evaluation and Free. The management station must also have Internet access.ESXi is often told to be a free hypervisor. The VI Client must be installed on a Windows machine that has network access to theĮSX Server 3i host. If you did not purchase the VMware Infrastructure Management software, use the VIĬlient package downloaded onto your host during the ESX Server 3i installation or anĮvaluation copy downloaded from the VMware Download Center. VI Client on a desktop or laptop computer that is to be used as a management station. VI ClientUse the VMware Infrastructure Management Installer CD‐ROM to install the For your first evaluation experience, you will install In addition, you can manage ESX Server 3i using VirtualCenter, just as you would any ESX Server 3system.Īfter you complete initial setup of your host machine, you can install the software
Using external agents that leverage well-defined APIs, such as the VIM API and the Common Information Model (CIM) management standard.
Using the remote command line interfaces, new interfaces that enable scripting and command-line-based configuration of the platform from a Linux or Windows-based server, via an encrypted and authenticated communication channel.
The VI Client has been enhanced to provide capabilities that were previously available only in the service console. Using the Virtual Infrastructure Client (VI Client), which provides a Windows-based graphical user interface for interactive configuration of the platform. Other management tasks previously done in the service console are now performed in one of several ways:
Because ESX Server 3i no longer includes a service console, many of the management activities performed on the ESX Server 3platform - for example, configuring user access to the service console and administering management agents running in it - are no longer necessary.
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