End Of General Availability of the Free vSphere Hypervisor

  • 14 February 2024
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VMware has announced that vSphere Hypervisor (free edition) will no longer be available on February 14, 2024. Any comments on this?😉

Refer to this KB for details, End Of General Availability of the Free vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x and 8.x) (2107518)


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Yeah...this was posted a couple days ago:

Travesty, tbh.

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Yeah, saw this in another post here and it is a shame they are killing it off.  Was great for learning and testing VMware especially in a HomeLab setting.

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Yeah...this was posted a couple days ago:

Travesty, tbh.

Sorry, I just back to Macau today. 

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I think it will impact on VMware Business 

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I think it’s going to make it harder to get newer guys to play with VMware products.  I think they’re going to go forward with the likes of ProxMox and XCP-NG and even the likes of FreeNAS and such.  But I have to agree with Gostev, in that if they goal is to cut out small business and go enterprise-only, this is a great step towards that.

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