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VMware ESXi 8 / vCenter 8 / Workstation 17 license key 2024
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Free VMware License Keys / ESXi ISOs

They should work. Works for all cores of your host system. Also you can download ESXi from here.

Links:

vCenter

ESXi

Workstation

Fusion

Downloads

ESXi

VMWare ESXi 8 Current logo icon
ESXi 8.0U3b (build 24280767)

ESXi 8.0U2b (build 23305546)

VMWare ESXi 7 Old logo icon
ESXi 7.0U3n (build 21930508)

Workstation

VMWare Workstation logo icon
Workstation 17.5.1 Windows (build 23298084)
Workstation 17.5.1 Linux (build 23298084)

vCenter Server

vCenter Server 8 Standard

Key Tested
4F282-0MLD2-M8869-T89G0-CF240 ✅
0F41K-0MJ4H-M88U1-0C3N0-0A214 ✅

vCenter Server 7

Key Tested
4F282-0MLD2-M8869-T89G0-CF240 ✅
0F41K-0MJ4H-M88U1-0C3N0-0A214 ✅

ESXi

ESXi 8

Key Tested
4V492-44210-48830-931GK-2PRJ4 ✅
HG00K-03H8K-48929-8K1NP-3LUJ4 ✅

ESXi 7 Enterprise Plus

Key Tested
JJ2WR-25L9P-H71A8-6J20P-C0K3F ✅
HN2X0-0DH5M-M78Q1-780HH-CN214 ✅
JH09A-2YL84-M7EC8-FL0K2-3N2J2 ✅

ESXi 6 Enterprise Plus

Key Tested
1G4WK-4YH54-080P9-C9AZP-9GHQF ✅

Workstation

Workstation 17

Key Tested
ZV3JH-4LXE1-M88MZ-HQXXX-XG0FD ✅
AG5RU-6AXDL-H81FZ-KQYN9-M32E0 ✅

Workstation 16

Key Tested
4F40H-4ML1K-M89U0-0C2N4-1AKL4 ❓

Fusion

Fusion 13 Pro

Key Tested
4A4RR-813DK-M81A9-4U35H-06KND ✅

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@ixiaan
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ixiaan commented Jan 8, 2025

http://ftpmirror.uk/pub/Software/vSphere/
you can download much thing from here

@TalhaSikandar
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Has anyone found a way to connect to the internet without enabling the esxi apis for their grand UPDATES and hence losing accesses?

@TruGitAdmin
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Has anybody figured out a way to get the vCenter server licenses to work? They keep coming up as invalid for me!

@mharris1984
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The license works for me. You have to make sure you are applying it to the correct version. I.e. this license will not work with vCenter with vsan, only vCenter 8 std. I applied to my 4 node homelab with with each server with 40x vcpu/396gb RAM/25gblinks with trunas running my NetApp disk shelf with zfs and came up as unlimited licenses.when installed.

Also, after you install the license you have to enable it in vCenter administration under licenses and applu the license to each host in the cluster and the vcenter appliance itself.

@TruGitAdmin
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The license works for me. You have to make sure you are applying it to the correct version. I.e. this license will not work with vCenter with vsan, only vCenter 8 std. I applied to my 4 node homelab with with each server with 40x vcpu/396gb RAM/25gblinks with trunas running my NetApp disk shelf with zfs and came up as unlimited licenses.when installed.

Also, after you install the license you have to enable it in vCenter administration under licenses and applu the license to each host in the cluster and the vcenter appliance itself.

Its not working on a 7.0.3 vCenter server. I'll try downloading and activating version 8.

@JayMax20
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My homelab VMUG vROPs key has expired - would anybody have a key for vROPs or Aria Operations please?

@sstefanov
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Somewhere to download vCenter 5.5?

@derasmo1976
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derasmo1976 commented Jan 24, 2025 via email

@Kindred-Spirit-UK
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Hi,
VMware ISO Software Archive

https://archive.org/details/vmware-archive

Cheers

@Kindred-Spirit-UK
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Hi,
to add, VMware vSphere 6 and 7 Licence Keys:

https://gist.github.com/CHSuworatrai/dcc0c625183202b2065aeab623356d50

Any VCenter 6 licence? 50626-4CL97-J8H92-0L1A6-9W4H0
vCloud 6 Standard : RH004-47CE3-K825Y-0EFA2-05EM1
NSX for vSphere : V148H-4D25K-58R78-04AR6-95N20

Cheers

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derasmo1976 commented Jan 25, 2025 via email

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derasmo1976 commented Jan 25, 2025 via email

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derasmo1976 commented Jan 25, 2025 via email

@Kindred-Spirit-UK
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They are in the ISO links

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derasmo1976 commented Jan 26, 2025 via email

@mharris1984
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Somewhere to download vCenter 5.5?

Wow, that's like a 4-5 year old version. I would not run that unless I'm an isolated / airgapped homelab. There is going to be a lot of security vulnerabilities that are unpatched and likely discovered for exploitation in the wild! If you're going based on supported hardware I've run unsupported hardware on all the way up to 8.0 without issue. I even have an HP DL380 G6 that I tested out for grins just to see if it would work and sure enough it does with some features not enabled of course. But generic hypervisor ability is there. Right now my home lab, I'm running for HP DL380 g9s and one HP DL360p G8. And I believe both of those models were even on the unsupported hardware list for 8.0. But they operate perfectly.

@mharris1984
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I wish I came across this before I started migrating my home lab from my four node HP DL380 G9 hosts with a NetApp disk shelf running 96 TB SAS through trueness on an HP DL 360P G8 with 8 SAS sSD for ZFS to XOA. Since Xen went open source, would surprise the hell out of me, it seemed the best alternative to VMware, since they were asking the VMUG program with the 365 day licenses. I've been a VMUG member since I joined at my first VM world in 2009. And went to the subsequent 8 VMworld conferences. And on my home lab servers I run about 45 VMs, a mix of a bunch of server Windows server 2022 2019 and other various appliances. I already started the migration of two of my hosts to XOA cluster whenever I came across these unlimited licenses. So thankfully I was able to use these to at least extend my current VMware v center while I finished migrations. But one thing I do love is XOA is a lot faster than VMware was!.

@sstefanov
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sstefanov commented Jan 27, 2025 •
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You can try Proxmox as vmware alternative. It's open source and it's excellent!

@derasmo1976
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derasmo1976 commented Jan 27, 2025 via email

@lidoror
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lidoror commented Jan 27, 2025

anybody found nsx key?

@Joker-Jack31
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Hello, does anyone have keys for vmWare Identity-Manager?

@ScottFromSelfHosted
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Does anybody have the decryption key for the .rar vSan 8?

@derasmo1976
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derasmo1976 commented Feb 5, 2025 via email

@devonverdonk
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Does anybody know what is going to happen with this keys if Broadcom comes up with their new license systems.
I have experience with ESXi but if this keys stop working I might try out Proxmox for my new build

@mharris1984
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Does anybody know what is going to happen with this keys if Broadcom comes up with their new license systems. I have experience with ESXi but if this keys stop working I might try out Proxmox for my new build

It works for now. But I'm migrating my home lab to XOA. The biggest part I hate is all nics on all servers have to be named the same in a cluster. I love VMware. But Broadcom has ruined it.

@derasmo1976
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derasmo1976 commented Feb 11, 2025 via email

@MrProphecy
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Thank you so much for this. It has really helped me keep the lab going to continue learning at home.

@theazlan89
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THANK YOU!!!!

No not yet @Bebiboux04

here ^-^
https://cios.dhitechnical.com/VM/VMware%20vSphere%208.0/ user : cios password: SuperSecretPassword

From these source, which file actually? I'm a bit confuse, there is file name example
VMware-ESXi-8.0U3c-24414501-depot.zip
and
VMware-VMvisor-Installer-8.0U3b-24280767.iso

so is it the iso of depot.zip that need to extract?

@Nurlan199206
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what's purpose use ESXi? Proxmox is free

@ts90325
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ts90325 commented Feb 26, 2025

Does anyone have a vSphere Hypervisor 8 free key ? not ent or std key

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