vSphere 6.5 has been released and as known from previous versions, VMware provides a free version of their Hypervisor ESXi for everyone again. The license key can be created for free at VMwares website. It has no expiration date. The binaries you will receive as 'Free Hypervisor' are 100% identical to the paid version.

• Esxi Free License Key
• Esxi 5.1 License Key Generator
• Vsphere 5.1 Licence Key

Does anybody have any details on how I might go about getting a license for ESXi 5.5 now that 6 has been released? I have attempted to use the license for 6 on 5.5 but with no luck. Naturally I've taken a look online and gone round in circles on the VMware site and still haven't found anything. The license key issued using the Free Download flow cannot be registered on the VMware License Portal. This license key does not provide support entitlement. Visit the online store to review and purchase support options. After you upgrade to ESXi 5.1, reapply your host license. Reapplying Licenses After Upgrading to ESXi 5.1 If you upgrade from ESX/ESXi 4.x, your ESXi 5.1 software returns to the 60-day evaluation mode period until you reapply your license. VSphere 5.5 – Download Free ESXi 5.5 License Keys Posted by Mohammed Raffic on Last updated Jan 1, 2016 at 8:16AM| Published on Oct 9, 2013 in vSphere 5.5| 228448 Views| 8 Responses vSphere 5.5 released and we are evaluating the features of our brand new hypervisor with our evaluation license. License for free VMware ESXI 5.1 I've downloaded and install ESXI 5.1 free version and have a license key for it when I registered. However, when I am logging in with VSphere client or directly on the VMware box I can see that license is set to 60 days eval and I do not see the way to key in free license provided by VMware. Re: ESXi 5.1 Free License hjhghjg Jul 21, 2013 3:44 PM ( in response to thatfellow76 ) The licence installed successfully, and the status of the Licencing changed to 'Expires: Never', but when I rebooted the ESXi 5.1 server, I got a message that the licence will expire in 60 days, and when checked the licence status I found that the free licence is now show at all.

Limitations

• No support
• Free ESXi cannot be added to a vCenter Server
• 2 physical CPUs
• Unlimited cores per CPU
• Unlimited physical Memory
• max. 8 vCPU per VM

1. Go to VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 Download Page
   
2. Login or create an account
   
3. Register for ESXi (Enter some personal information)
   After registration, you will receive a unique license key and access to the binaries. If you already have an ESXi 6.0 license key, you don't need to sign up for a new key.
4. Download VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 - Binaries
   
5. Install ESXi to your Hardware (Create a Bootable ESXi Installer USB Flash Drive)
6. Login as root with the Embedded Host Client (https://<ESX>/ui/)
7. Navigate to Manage -> Licensing
   
8. Click Assign license and enter your license key
   

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Server virtualization player VMware recently introduced vSphere 5, following the widespread success of the product’s earlier version, vSphere 4. VMware vSphere 5 facilitates the move to shared infrastructure-as-a-service. Since the release of VMware vSphere 5, there has been a buzz in the market, mainly due to the new vSphere 5 licensing scheme introduced by VMware, rather than any revolutionary features of the latest release. VMware has altered the vSphere 5 licensing model to enable customers to move to a more cloud-like, “pay for consumption” mode. This tip explains the VMware vSphere 5 licensing model and its implications for users.

Vsphere 4 licensing v/s vSphere 5 licensing

The vSphere 5.0 licensing model is per processor (CPU) with pooled vRAM entitlements. In vSphere 4 and vSphere 4.1, VMware used a per-CPU licensing model based on the number of server cores. But in vSphere 5 licensing, VMware has linked cost to the amount of physical memory that businesses allocate to virtual machines on the host. Users can pool the allocation, called vRAM, across the entire data center, without any size limits on the pooling. Vsphere 5’s virtual machines support up to 32 virtual CPUs, compared with eight virtual CPUs for vSphere 4. Vsphere 5’s virtual machines can also hold up to 1 TB of virtual RAM, compared with 256 GB for the predecessor.

The pooling of vRAM makes vSphere 5 licensing extremely flexible, and can reduce the number of required vSphere licenses since vRAM entitlements can be shared among multiple hosts. There are no restrictions on how vRAM is consumed across virtual machines and CPUs. At any given point in time, the amount of vRAM consumed by active virtual machines on a CPU could exceed the base entitlement of the vSphere 5 license assigned to that CPU. As long as the total consumed vRAM across all virtual machines managed by one of more VMware vCenter instances is less than or equal to the total available vRAM, vSphere is correctly licensed. Following user inputs on the initial VSphere 5 licensing model, VMware capped the amount of vRAM count in any given VM. Now, not even the “monster” 1TB vRAM VM, will cost more than one vSphere Enterprise Plus license.

Vsphere 5 licensing options

The following vSphere 5 editions are available, along with the earlier and revised licensing options:

Why the change in vSphere 5 licensing?

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vSphere 4.x licensing did not reflect the fact that vSphere excels at pooling physical hardware resources across the entire data center and presenting them as a single, unified, shared infrastructure — an innovation that is one of the core pillars of cloud infrastructure. The hardware-based licensing model of vSphere 4.x made it difficult for users to transition to the usage-based cost and charge-back models that characterize cloud computing and IT-as-a-Service. As CPU vendors offer multi-CPU cores and configurations change frequently, it was logical for VMware to divert from the core licensing model.

Vsphere 5 licensing example

Consider the case of a user with two 2-CPU hosts, desirous of licensing the vSphere Enterprise edition, which has vRAM entitlement of 64 GB per CPU. Each physical CPU requires a license, so a minimum of four vSphere Enterprise licenses are required. More licenses will be required if the user needs to use vRAM over and above the 256 GB (4 x 64 GB) vRAM entitlement with four licenses.

Next, the user creates 20 virtual machines, each with 4 GB of vRAM, and plans to run five virtual machines on each of the four CPUs. Both hosts are in the same vRAM pool, as they are connected to the same vCenter server running the same vSphere edition. This vRAM pool allows VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware vMotion to move the virtual machines between any of the CPUs without needing additional licenses. Even if all 20 virtual machines were running on a single CPU, no additional vRAM capacity would be required, because the pooled vRAM entitlement would not be exceeded.

Esxi 5.1 License Key Generator

In vSphere 5 licensing, users can increase vRAM capacity in two ways:

• Add new vSphere licenses of the same edition.
• Upgrade licenses to an edition with a higher vRAM entitlement.

In the above example, suppose the user adds an additional host with a single CPU. This necessitates purchase of an additional license of vSphere Enterprise, raising the vRAM capacity by another 64 GB to a total of 320 GB. The user adds 10 virtual machines that have 8 GB of vRAM each on the new host. Although the 80 GB of vRAM running on the new host is more than its single CPU is entitled to, the other two hosts have enough excess vRAM, so no additional licenses are required.

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Upgrade path

Vsphere customers with an active SnS contract are entitled to upgrade to vSphere 5.0 at no extra charge. Organizations that purchased vSphere 4.x Standard with vMotion and Storage vMotion are entitled to vSphere 5.0 Enterprise Edition. Users with an expired SnS must pay reinstatement fees to purchase supported upgrades.

Reinstatement fees are based on the following criteria:
• The applicable SnS fees for the current contract term.
• Fees that would have been paid for the period of time that the customer’s SnS contract was not active.
• A 20 percent fee on the sum of the fees in the preceding two criteria. Olympus camedia master windows 10.

Vsphere 5 license pricing

*New in vSphere 5.0

Drawbacks of vSphere 5 licensing

In vSphere 4.1, a user who configured the entire RAM on a 128 GB, two-socket server required only two licenses. With vSphere 5, that user will need three licenses, even if the usage is only 96 GB of memory (and has made an allocation of the entire 128 GB). In such cases, Vsphere 5 licensing could prove costlier than the previous model, but in the long run it may be beneficial due to leveraging of pooled licensing options.

Vsphere 4 and vSphere 5 licensing comparison

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Total number of hosts = 1

CPU count = 2

Cores/CPU = 12

RAM/HOST = 64 GB

Target memory utilization = 100%

About the author: Anuj Sharma is an EMC Certified and NetApp accredited professional. Sharma has experience in handling implementation projects related to SAN, NAS and BURA. He also has to his credit several research papers published globally on SAN and BURA technologies.