{"id":80,"date":"2008-08-05T23:34:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T22:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pgregg.com\/wp\/2008\/08\/vmware-releases-esxi-for-free\/"},"modified":"2008-08-05T23:34:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T22:34:42","slug":"vmware-releases-esxi-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/vmware-releases-esxi-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware releases ESXi for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I totally missed this one until a few days ago, but VMware <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/company\/news\/releases\/esxi_pricing.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">has released the ESXi Hypervisor free of charge<\/a>.&nbsp; &nbsp;They obviously see the pending challenge from Microsoft, Xen and Virtualbox and are hoping to gain traction and mindshare in the community &#8211; but I have one piece of advice for VMware.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to regain the &quot;developer&quot; mindshare &#8211; those evangelists that sponsor VMware in their corporations &#8211; then restore the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualization.info\/2006\/12\/vmware-fades-out-vmtn-subscription.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">VMTN Subscription<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>VMTN was my affordable way in to VMware &#8211; and because of that and my persistence in my current workplace, VMware now has over 20 ESX Enterprise license sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I totally missed this one until a few days ago, but VMware has released the ESXi Hypervisor free of charge.&nbsp; &nbsp;They obviously see the pending challenge from Microsoft, Xen and Virtualbox and are hoping to gain traction and mindshare in the community &#8211; but I have one piece of advice for VMware. If you want &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/vmware-releases-esxi-for-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VMware releases ESXi for free&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbQOUu-1i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}