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goltra
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Dec 6, 2008

Dec 6, 2008 12:55 AM

VMWARE ESX is free?


I have read esx is now open source, and there is a free licence to donwload it but we can use it free ? have limitations?

I hope somebody can help me. We are using vmware server since 2 years at small developments and i´m very intereting about esx and his licence

thank you....

Tags: esx, free, opensouce
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Ernie Oporto
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Dec 9, 2008
1. Dec 9, 2008 8:43 AM in response to: goltra
Re: VMWARE ESX is free?

You are thinking of ESXi. Here is the difference between the twovirtualization platforms...

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006543


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Lars Troen
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Sep 10, 2007
2. Dec 16, 2008 3:56 AM in response to: goltra
Re: VMWARE ESX is free?
...and with update3, the Remote CLI is not limited to read only access anymore. The access to the API has changed and now you can also do Quick Migration and many other things that were'nt possible on ESXi until now.

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Lars Troen
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3. Dec 22, 2008 1:20 AM in response to: Lars Troen
Re: VMWARE ESX is free?
This unlimited API access is however a bug, so don't count on it still being there in the next update of ESXi.

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