You also don't need to buy Essentials if you don't require the features that it provides... you can just request a free ESXI key from VMWare.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Josh Baird <[email protected]> wrote: > You lose all of the non-free features and you cannot start or manage VM's. > > The essentials kit which includes licenses for up to (3) 2-socket hosts is > ~$500. You don't get vMotion or any storage HA related features with > Essentials, but you do get vCenter Server, templates, backup API, etc. > > Josh > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:29 PM, David via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anyone using vmware 5.5 evaluation ? >> What happens when you ur eval expires? >> how much is the essentials license? >> >> >> -- >> > >
