[GTALUG] VMware ESXi Licensing and Quality

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On 2017-10-13 12:33 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> I'm having some trouble figuring out the licensing on VMware's ESXi. 
> It's proprietary - I've got that and I don't love it.  But Packt's
> "DevOps Automation Cookbook" (2015) is essentially saying it's free to
> use, and implying - I don't think they ever stated it outright - that
> it's permanently free.  But on VMware's site (
> https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-7AFCC64B-7D94-48A0-86CF-8E7EF55DF68F.html
> ) it reads as if it's a 60 day evaluation, period.
> 
> Which brings up a few questions:
> - is ESXi technically good enough that I should be pursuing this at
> all?  (I'm currently using Proxmox.  It works, I'm not entirely happy
> with it, but I'll probably stick with it because of the licensing which
> is more open source friendly)
> - is ESXi permanently free? and can you get security updates if you're
> on the free licensing?
> - is there anything appalling in their license? eg. Facebook's recent
> license clauses "using our products means you can't ever sue us for
> anything" (point applies even though they fixed it)
> 
> Thanks.

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