We need to do a VMware consolidation down from 4.0 Enterprise to 5.1 Essentials Plus. I have 4 hosts that are going to be retired as part of the migration but I need to get the VMs off of them first.

I have installed ESXi 5.5 to play around with it, kick the tires, etc, I wondered what happens if I don't put in a license key after 60 days? Does it shut down the VMs and stop working?

In 2007, top Linux contributor Christoph Hellwig accused VMware of using Linux as the basis for the VMware ESX bare-metal hypervisor, an essential part of VMware's cloud offerings. Now, Hellweg and ...

VMware ESXi is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware for deploying and serving virtual computers by integrating vital OS components, such as a kernel; since as a type-1 hypervisor ...