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[Louis Conner]

Is anyone able to find a download link for the free open source version of ESXI? Getting Entitlement Issues.

[Nathan Watts]

There is no longer a free personal edition of ESXi.

[Shen88]

@Louis Conner

End Of General Availability of the free vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x and 8.x) (broadcom.com)

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Shen
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[NickDaGeekUK]

I think you may have missed the announcement. ESXi community edition is no more.

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IT Manager. That person just about managing to keep the IT going with no budget or staff despite the effects of Senior Management and End Users.

IT Worker. A biological system for turning caffeine into code.
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[StephenMoll]

Probably doesn't help, but just in case : VMware Workstation Pro is free to download for home use now.

VMware Desktop Hypervisor Pro Apps Now Available for Personal Use - VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog

[goldeneye_007]

Nutanix has a CE version as does Proxmox.