Virtualization expert Edward L. Haletky is the author of “VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers,” Pearson Education (2008.) ...

VMware made a long-anticipated move July 22 when it announced that its ESXi hypervisor would be free. That doesn't mean VMware customers can avoid pricey fees for support and management tools, though.

VMware solution providers currently find margins for the product to already be low, especially given how much it costs to become certified, and having that free download of ESXi will help.

VMware on Aug. 31 launched the beta version of VMware Go, a free service designed to help first-time customers-mainly in the small-to-medium-size business market-get started with virtualization.

This was due to me degrading the outgoing packets and the application buffering the video stream. Conclusion VMware has recently changed its licensing model, moving from perpetual licensing to ...

Still it was a valuable tool for people who used the enterprise versions of ESXi but wanted to play around with and/or learn its ins and outs without dealing with paid licensing. Although the free ...

VMware CEO Paul Maritz goes on the offensive against Microsoft Hyper-V by announcing its embedded hypervisor product, ESXi, will be free. After announcing the company’s 2008 second quarter ...

VMware Tuesday said it will offer the small-footprint version of its ESX virtualization software free, responding to pressure from Microsoft and other companies that are threatening VMware's lead ...

I work for a small 40-person design/development shop. I wanted to move our main development server from KVM to VMware ESXi (free version).

This free Web-based tool from VMware hopes to make virtualization management easier for SMBs Originally unveiled just prior to the start of VMworld 2009 back in August, VMware’s Web-based ESXi 4 ...

VMware denies that competition from Microsoft had anything to do with the decision to make ESXi free. “We’re focusing our efforts on the 20-plus products we sell on top of the hypervisor.