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Experimental - does this mean stable?
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I'd have to check to see if I can find their formal definition. &nbsp;My understanding is that it has gone through basic testing and will operate on ESX. &nbsp;Support is given as &quot;best effort&quot; with no guaranteed fixes if a problem arises.
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I'd have to check to see if I can find their formal definition.  My understanding is that it has gone through basic testing and will operate on ESX.  Support is given as "best effort" with no guaranteed fixes if a problem arises.

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Found it, here's the def:<br />
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VMware includes certain &quot;experimental features&quot; in some of our product releases. These features are there for you to test and experiment with. We do not expect these features to be used in a production environment. However, if you do encounter any issues with an &quot;experimental feature&quot;, we are interested in any feedback you are willing to share. Please submit a support request via the normal access methods. You will receive an auto-acknowledgement of your request. We cannot, however, commit to troubleshoot, provide workarounds or provide fixes for these &quot;experimental features&quot;.
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Found it, here's the def:

VMware includes certain "experimental features" in some of our product releases. These features are there for you to test and experiment with. We do not expect these features to be used in a production environment. However, if you do encounter any issues with an "experimental feature", we are interested in any feedback you are willing to share. Please submit a support request via the normal access methods. You will receive an auto-acknowledgement of your request. We cannot, however, commit to troubleshoot, provide workarounds or provide fixes for these "experimental features".

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So that mean windows 2008 server CANNOT be run on ESX in production environment . . .what I call bottom line answer :)
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So that mean windows 2008 server CANNOT be run on ESX in production environment . . .what I call bottom line answer :)

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Will Windows Server 2008 work on ESX 3.0??
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Will Windows Server 2008 work on ESX 3.0??

Windows Server 2008 on ESX

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.