vShphere Hypervisor

[ldowens]

Can I use my download key to install and activate on a second VM Host I have setup?  I already have on up and running and activated.

[Anjani_Kumar]

Yes, you can . But its also depend on your license type (Standard, enterprise or Enterprise+ )

Must read this for better understanding.

VMware KB: Licensing an ESX/ESXi 4.x or ESXi 5.0 host fails with the error: The license key entered does not have en…

VMware vSphere 5.1

[ldowens]

It is the FREE download. QUAD Core processor. Does that make a difference?

[a_p_]

>>> It is the FREE download.  QUAD Core processor.  Does that make a difference?

I'm not aware of a limitation - regarding the number of ESXi hosts - for the free Hypervisor license.

With ESXi 5.5 all physical limitations (memory, # of CPUs/cores, ...) are gone.

André

[Anjani_Kumar]

Yes. its okay to use this . But i believe it will be for 60 days evolution

Here are the maximum limits for your ESXi 5.5.

vSphere 5.5 supports 320 Physical CPUs per ESXi host

ESXi host supports 4 TB of Memory in vSphere 5.5

16 NUMA Nodes per host in vSphere 5.5

4096 Maximum vCPUs per host

Support for 40 GBps Physical Network adapters

62 TB VMDK virtual disk support

Supports 16 GB FibreChannel end-to-end Support

Increased VMFS Heap, 64TB open VMDK per host max

Virtual Machine Hardware Version 10 in vSphere 5.5

Hope it will help you out.