It’s Official! ESXi 3.5 Update 2 is FREE and available for download
VMware, following through on Paul Maritz’ promise from last week, officially announced today that ESXi is now available for free. The icing on this “virtual cake” turns out to be that the latest version, Update 2 released Friday 07.25, offers new features and functions than previously available.
Read the press release – VMware ESXi Hypervisor Now Free.
Get the download at www.vmware.com/products/esxi/.
Click the image to the right to go to VMware’s ESXi 3.5 web page to learn more.
Concentrating on the technical reaction and excitement from the news, here are some links from various posts I found interesting in the virtualization blogisphere.
Duncan over at Yellow-bricks.com has begun exploring some of the features and, as usual, has some helpful tips and pointers covering:
- ESX 3.5 U2 and HA error
- ESXi, pick it up for free now!
- New VCB feature
- Remote CLI Update!
- VSS Snapshots
Eric of NTPRO.NL offers educational information for getting started with ESXi
- VMware ESXi Online Training
- Getting Started with ESX Server 3i Installable
- Get a free license for VMware ESXi
Last but not least, Andrew at Dugie’s Pensieve promises what looks like to be series on using ESXi










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