
For information on viewing your license keys, and for links to information on managing your license keys, see How to view license keys in My VMware (2006831).


The same is true when upgrading from vSphere 6.x to 7.x. It is not possible to use vSphere 5.x licenses on vSphere 6.x. The vSphere 5.x, 6.x and 7.x releases require different license keys.You can’t Manage Free ESXi from vCenter Server.Number of cores per physical CPU: No limit.VMware ESXi Free vs PAID What is VMware ESXi Free Limitations? When the trial period ends and the product locks out the advanced features and becomes VMware ESXi free. If you don’t enter the serial number for the free version, the product works as full version during 60 days. VMware ESXi Free version is the same download as the full ESXi with exact same ISO but stays unlocked only for 60 days. Don’t worry, VMware provides us with the Free ESXi 6.0 Hypervisor with non-expired license keys. It will be time-consuming to re-install ESXi 6 every 60 days after your evaluation license is expired.

The evaluation period is 60 days but do you think 60 days is not enough to keep your hands dirty with ESXi 6.0. VSphere 6.0 released and we are started evaluating the features of our brand new hypervisor with our evaluation license.
