ESXi Evaluation Period
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If they are separate products, with separate links, as has been posted, how do you install the free version without installing a licence key and without it being an evaluation version.
Every time I have in installed ESXi, it has started in evaluation mode until I installed the licence key. Are you saying that I have been downloading and installing the wrong product all this time. Maybe I'm as "dense" as the OP?
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Cos as far as I've always been aware, it is possible that someone could want to use ESXi free. Download and install it. Then it will run in evaluation mode. At the end of that evaluation mode it will tell them their licence has expired. They could then think "expired? I thought I was running the free version?". They might ask what's going on, only to be told that they are dense and have installed the wrong product!
That's how I imagine it could have played out.
But that's because I didn't think 'free' and 'trial' were separate products with separate downloads. So maybe, like you say I must have done, he's clicked on the wrong download link all this time and downloaded the wrong product.
I have my doubts though.
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@Carnival-Boy said in ESXi Evaluation Period:
If they are separate products, with separate links, as has been posted, how do you install the free version without installing a licence key and without it being an evaluation version.
Every time I have in installed ESXi, it has started in evaluation mode until I installed the licence key. Are you saying that I have been downloading and installing the wrong product all this time. Maybe I'm as "dense" as the OP?
No, what I'm saying (but not some others) is that there is only one product, but it is clear that it is an eval until licensed.
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@Carnival-Boy said in ESXi Evaluation Period:
Cos as far as I've always been aware, it is possible that someone could want to use ESXi free. Download and install it. Then it will run in evaluation mode.
Correct, that is my understanding as well.
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@Carnival-Boy said in ESXi Evaluation Period:
At the end of that evaluation mode it will tell them their licence has expired. They could then think "expired? I thought I was running the free version?".
I agree that this is what most likely happened. The question, I think, is how someone (maybe not the OP) could have run an eval version without knowing that it was the eval version.
The question, I think, is what would make them feel that they had installed the free version when it says eval version to make it clear that it isn't the free one.
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@Carnival-Boy said in ESXi Evaluation Period:
If they are separate products, with separate links...
Separate products with one link. Just like Windows desktop and Windows server.
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No. ESXi is one product with one download ISO. The licence key determines which features are unlocked. If you want to run ESXi free you download and install the full product and then install a licence.
Can you change Windows Desktop to Windows Server just be changing the licence key? No. They are seperate products.
I have recently downgraded from ESXi Essentials to ESXi Free simply by entering a different key. It's the same product.
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@travisdh1 said in ESXi Evaluation Period:
@DustinB3403 Basically, no real world experience at all. Doesn't realize the evaluation license isn't the same thing as the free license (or a sales minion said it was the same thing and were taken at face value.)
Love that term... Sales minion
Aside from that... Newbee, low on budget, no experience, who knows. I'm getting a bit tired of telling people about free HV and XS
I just had the minion movie on in the background this weekend. I'm afraid that I'm insulting Minions with that phrase, but it's just so apropos.
I tend to call them marketing slaves, sales cutthroats or something like that
"Sales dicks"
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@Carnival-Boy said in ESXi Evaluation Period:
Can you change Windows Desktop to Windows Server just be changing the licence key? No. They are seperate products.
Actually, you traditionally could do that. But you CAN move between different Windows Server versions.
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@Carnival-Boy said in ESXi Evaluation Period:
I have recently downgraded from ESXi Essentials to ESXi Free simply by entering a different key. It's the same product.
I'd say you moved between products. It's one product family, they are super similar, but are they the same product? Just semantics, but they are very different.
XO Community and XOA are not the same product. But it's the same code.
