Broadcom has discontinued the free version of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor.
News of the change came in a Monday knowledge base article that revealed the tool was removed from VMware.com and offered the following explanation for the change:
The free cut of ESXi was only able to run on limited number of cores, addressed a modest quantity of memory, and lacked many management niceties. So while it was able to be used in production it was more suited to testing, tinkering, and hobbyists. But when…