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Is 3.5 still a good platform to deploy or should I move to v4? I'm building a single VMserver to host SBS2008 Premium to separate the main installation from the SQL so they run on two separate machines, so nothing fancy.<br />
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I was trying to download ESXi 3.5 update 3 or 4 but it didn't have much luck, anybody has a direct link?<br />
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Thank you so much
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Is 3.5 still a good platform to deploy or should I move to v4? I'm building a single VMserver to host SBS2008 Premium to separate the main installation from the SQL so they run on two separate machines, so nothing fancy.

I was trying to download ESXi 3.5 update 3 or 4 but it didn't have much luck, anybody has a direct link?

Thank you so much

What is the main difference beetwen ESXi 3.5 and 4?

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

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.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.