ESXI Download

[VMwareSorro]

Hi Team,

Please share ESXI download page Link.

Regards,

Amar N. Sorro

[Sushil Kumar]

At this point of time , to me it appears that Broadcom themselves do not know where the download repo is . All Links are broken and So called support / partner portal is not in good shape 

happens when we try to fix good things...

[susse77]

If you are trying to update a host you could use esxcli. It worked on hostupdate.broadcom.com last sunday.

connect to the host using ssh and open up the firewall:
esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient

search for your release:
esxcli software sources profile list -d https://hostupdate.broadcom.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-inde
x.xml | grep -i ESXi-8

un the update command:
esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-8.0U2b-23305546-standard -d https://hostupdate.broadcom.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml

close the firewall:
esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r httpClient

[Sushil Kumar]

So found the link below 

https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/downloads

It is hidden under VCF when u login to home page

[gparker]

Try visiting Download Broadcom products and software, scroll down the page a bit and select the VMware Cloud Foundation link and hopefully you'll find 2 pages worth of VMware products to download..

Regards, George.

[Andreas_Raschle]

Tried 

https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productfiles?displayGroup=VMware%20vSphere%2B%20-%20Standard&release=vSphere+&os=&servicePk=202634&language=EN&groupId=204426

But there I get only "not entitled". I want our apprentices to tray vmware with th 60days evaluation license but only can download custom builds like for HPE.

Not sure whether I should give MS Hyper-V a try...

[gparker]

Hi Andreas, I feel your pain. I am not a Broadcom employee, so can't help you further I'm afraid.

Regards,
George.

George Parker
Senior Project Consultant
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[NickDaGeekUK]

If its is for the aprentices to trial would recommend either HyperV server (free but CLI only) or if you have a spare licence MS server with the HyperV role installed. Failing that try Proxmox. Veeam 12 now supports it so they can even try configuring backups too. :)

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