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

• vCenter Server 8 Standard
• vCenter Server 7

ESXi

• ESXi 8
• ESXi 7 Enterprise Plus
• ESXi 6 Enterprise Plus

Workstation

• Workstation 17
• Workstation 16

Fusion

• Fusion 13 Pro

Downloads

ESXi

ESXi 8.0U3b (build 24280767)

ESXi 8.0U2b (build 23305546)

ESXi 7.0U3n (build 21930508)

Workstation

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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VMware-ESXi-8.0U3d (Latest ISO) (Google Drive Link)

https://bit.ly/3DCPbR2

4V492-44210-48830-931GK-2PRJ4 (Key works - no expiry)

Video for installation steps - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apC1bOLbzbY

Please reply to this message with your list of VMware products(vCenter, ESXi 6.5 etc) you want me to list on my cdn.

Hi can i get vSAN8 license for my lab purpose.

what's purpose use ESXi? Proxmox is free

ESXi used to be free "for life", but if you wanted to cluster or do anything more then just a single host, you have to pay $$$$" Then broadcom said NOPE, no more freebee's!!! Pay us 15x what you did to vmware and we'll give you the privilage of LEASING this software for another year. and invalidated all the previous lifetime licesnes that everyone owned as Vmware used a paid once model for licenses and just paid for maintenance/upgrades/updates

ProxMox is relativily new in this space and VMWare you have a TON more advanced items you can do in enterprise enviroments and even home labs. ProxMox is limited in its capabilities, but they are making it better and better. VMWare was the KING of virtualization. Broadcom has seen to it that they will die after Broadcom squeezes every last red cent out of it, like they do...

I have worked on VMWare now for over 13 years and certified on many versions/systems. It took me a bit to get used to ProxMox. XOA is what I tested out first, but they have even MUCH LESS available to do, i.e. network/vnetwork. ProxMox can do a bunch of things via Scripts/CLI/API, so that is a plus, but automating functions and lifecycles and stuff, there is no out of the box systems (like vmware 6 years ago or so, before vops and vrealize), But trying to automate in ProxMox is proving dificult for myself, but I have to migrate my 2 clusters:

Cluster 1 - Legacy Vmware:
3 HP DL380 G9s

• 368GB ECC RAM in ea
• 40 vCPU's in ea (2x 10 Core CPU's w/hyperthreading, so 20v cores ea, and 40 in each server)
• 8x 1.2TB SSD SAS SFF drives in ea
• 6x 10Gbps SFP+ ports in ea
• about 60 VM's running (mix of Ubuntu Server, Windows Server 2019/2022, Windows 11, Windows 10, Various appliances that are Linux based (i.e. Load Balancer, Home Assistant, VCenter, PBX, Others.)

Cluster 2 - ProxMox New Cluster (will fold VMWare cluster into ProxMox after server migration is completed. (NEW CLUSTER I am building now)
3 HP DL360P G10

• 256GB ECC Ram ea
• 80 vCPU's in ea (2x 20 core CPU's w/hyperthreading)
• 8x 1.2 TB SSD SAS SFF drives in ea
• 6x 10Gbps SFP+ ports in ea
• Only have a few VM's on it so far as this is still getting fully setup and up and running to replace the old ones.

I run TrueNas on an HP DL360 G8:

• NetApp 4246 running 24 12TB SAS Drives
• 8x 1.2TB SSD SAS SFF Drives on the server for the ZFS ables/data/fastcache/etc.
• 392GB ECC RAM

Each host has 2 aggragated in active/active config, so a 20 Gbps link between each host to a dedicated massive switch for only traffice between the TrueNas to each host on their own VNLAN/Subnet, so that way all traffic for the VM disks has that 20Gbps link back to the TrueNAS. Makes the VM's run SUPER FAST!!!! Each of the other hosts has then two aggragated 10Gbps to eachother, so 4 total, going to 2x 20Gpbs links (active/acitve load balanced round robin with packets, so traffic is SUPER FAST) from the hosts to my other massive aggragation switch. and all my other network conencts to it over a 20Gbps backbone that my entire nework has running downt he back.

Oh yeah, and this is all in my home lab... I think I have an addiction... HAHAAHAHAHAHA

I miss the massive virtual networking that vmware could do... from virtual firewalls for massive networks to smaller ones. Helping isolate traffic, internal vlans and routing, setup a set of virtual switches between DC's/clusters/containers, and much more. Proxmox gives some network capabilities, so for that i'm atleast greatful more then XOA's... :(.

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