You don't get any fancy management of anything, and you sure as hell don't really need vCenter which comes with vSphere Standard with only one host, well, I can't see the justification for it anyhow. The free version will almost certainly do what you need. To do simple management, you can use the free vSphere client to do things. It's the management software to do other things which may or may not cost, depending on what you need. wrote:ESXi, and any hypervisors are free. So upgrading is not a problem at all later.īud G.
All you do is add the Essentials license key and the free version enables the locked functions. You CAN install ESXi free today and then decide later to upgrade to Essentials without having to reinstall anything. You need to ensure you have backups covered in your strategy too. I assume they are providing some useful service to the organization. You need to consider this for your environment even with only 2 VMs. The other issue you will have is how will you backup the VM clients and the data on the VM clients? You can do this with the Windows OS tools or with some third party backup tools. If the company can sustain a week or so outage as you get new hardware in place redundancy is not that important. Most companies will install two or more esxi servers to have a little redundancy in the computing environment. So this means you are out of business until you can get new hardware in place.
If your vm host fails, you've now lost 2 or more servers with no redundancy. Some things you are overlooking with this is you are now putting all of your eggs (so to speak) in one basket. If that is all you need then you should go with your initial plan, just use free. I haven't touched ESXi 6.0 free yet, but I can say that ESXi 5.5 free can be managed very well with just the vSphere Client.
Otherwise, you can save quite a bit of money by dropping to the standard edition.As others mentioned above, you can install and manage ESXi free. Do you want this? If so, you have to buy what you have been quoted. This gives you several features, or which Storage vMotion is the notable one. That said, you stated you were quoted on "Enterprise" edition. For some environments those limitations are acceptable, however one of those limitations is the ability to talk to vCenter - so no, you cannot just use the free edition in your environment. There may be a "free" edition of ESXi, but you can think of it as a "feature limited trial". A vmware "Enterprise" license can be used to install either ESX Enterprise or ESXi Enterprise, but there's really no excuse to do new deployments under ESX these days. Just like ESX, ESXi has many "editions", depending on the features you want. You seem to be of the view that ESX is a paid product and ESXi is always free for the same features?ĮSX is an old technology, and soon to be phased out of existance.
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