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Oct 05, 2017  1. Register for an evaluation of the non free version Download VMware vSphere 2. Download the evaluation and install 3. Activate with your free esxi license key I beleive this should be an alirght approach, as otherwise the license key i m using should not be activeable in trail version I downloaded. VMware.vSphere.to.build.a.cloud.computing.(Crack.VMWare.ESXi.5.1).How.t o.

Ultimately I'm only planning on running ~5 guests on a single CPU (quad core) system with 16GB RAM. This is really just for personal tinkering, so I'm not looking for anything crazy performance-wise.

I'm exploring ESXi 6 as an option, but I have some questions before I dive in. 1) Is ESXi 6 the right choice for me? I see other alternatives (e.g. Citrix, MS Hyper-V), but it looks like the community around ESXi is more robust, which will be important to me as a new learner. I've looked at feature comparisons, but so far it looks like the major differentiators are beyond what I'll be playing with as a new learner (e.g. I'm not going to be using direct device mapping, live running-VM migrations or anything weird like that; just hosting some pretty standard machines). 2) If ESXi is a good choice, is there any reason not to use the latest (v6 I think)?

Any reason to stay back with v5 for now? (Maybe better support? Proshivka aiwa 32le6020.

Maybe v6 has kinks they haven't worked out yet?) 3) From what I have read, I can do this for free if I'm just tinkering at home and not doing anything 'fancy'. The hypervisor itself looks straightforward (), I just need to install 'vSphere Hypervisor', right? Miele novotronic w 151 manual diagram.

4) Where I'm really confused is in the management piece. I understand that the hypervisor just RUNS the guests, but not much configuration can be done on the hypervisor itself. You apparently need some other 'piece' to do the management (setting up guests and managing their resources). I think this piece is 'vSphere' (), but I'm not sure. When I visit that page, I only see 'Try it for free' types of links, and no 'free' version. But what I've read online has said that you can mange a few servers with limited numbers of CPUs/RAM for free. Is there a 'free' or 'lite' version of vSphere I should be looking for?

Do I just install the free trial 'Demo' and keep using it beyond the 60 day trial? If so, I assume some functionality shuts off at 60 days - what do I lose at that point? EDIT: Wow, downvotes.:- Anything I could do to make this post more appropriate for this subreddit? I've been doing my research - just asking for some help from the experts. VSphere refers to the entire suite of VMware software around virtualization.

It's not a single product or download in and of itself. The bare hypervisor you would need first is called 'ESXi' which is currently up to version 6.0. If you are standing up a new environment, there should be no reason not to go with 6.0. VMware is still the biggest player in the virtualization space, so it's definitely a good place to start.