I've been using his local cron-based backup script to facilitate weekly backups of my VMs and ESXi configuration to my NAS for well over a year now. He does provide excellent scripts and insight though. See About ESXi Evaluation and Licensed Modes.
When you upgrade ESXi 6.5 or ESXi 6.7 hosts to ESXi 7.0 hosts, the hosts are in a 60-day evaluation mode period until you apply the correct vSphere 7 licenses.
Or if those updates were even forthcoming from vmware for their free license.Īlong those same lines, William Lam's appliances are all nested, which isn't applicable to what I'm talking about here. For example, if you upgrade an ESXi host from 6.x to 7.0, you need to license the host with a vSphere 7 license. That's why I was asking if I needed to obtain an updated "free" license (different from trial) to access further 6.5 updates. I expected them to release an "Update 1" for my free license, but all they have is 6.5.0a. Typically I don't upgrade until at least "Update 1" is released. and Data Protection for VMware data mover to protect more virtual machines. My license is free, with no time-limit, but also no vCenter. The combination of the Tivoli Storage Manager. So a 60-day trial isn't going to work for me. I've been upgrading it since and am now running 6.0u2 on that same hardware. The box I built started out as 4.1 back in 2011.
I'm an enthusiast running a free version of ESXi to house various VMs that are up 24x7 to provide services for my home network and locally hosted apps.
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