On 2017-10-13 12:33 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > I'm having some trouble figuring out the licensing on VMware's ESXi. > It's proprietary - I've got that and I don't love it. But Packt's > "DevOps Automation Cookbook" (2015) is essentially saying it's free to > use, and implying - I don't think they ever stated it outright - that > it's permanently free. But on VMware's site ( > https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-7AFCC64B-7D94-48A0-86CF-8E7EF55DF68F.html > ) it reads as if it's a 60 day evaluation, period. > > Which brings up a few questions: > - is ESXi technically good enough that I should be pursuing this at > all? (I'm currently using Proxmox. It works, I'm not entirely happy > with it, but I'll probably stick with it because of the licensing which > is more open source friendly) > - is ESXi permanently free? and can you get security updates if you're > on the free licensing? > - is there anything appalling in their license? eg. Facebook's recent > license clauses "using our products means you can't ever sue us for > anything" (point applies even though they fixed it) > > Thanks.
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