Many Fortune 100 companies have already standardized on the ESXi platform.Īlthough one instance of free VMware ESXi can be managed with the vSphere Client, the free version has two important limitations:
ESXi has a superior architecture and we encourage customers to deploy ESXi as part of any new vSphere deployment.
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However, the fact that the older platform, VMware ESX, is not also available for free has lead some people to believe that ESXi may be inferior or not as feature-rich as ESX.
VMware made the decision to make VMware ESXi, our next generation hypervisor, freely available to proliferate the VMware platform and allow administrators to prove its value at no cost.