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No. Same number of vm's that can run under the paid one. Have a look at this. Basically with the free version you don't get the advanced features.<br />
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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html</a>
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No. Same number of vm's that can run under the paid one. Have a look at this. Basically with the free version you don't get the advanced features.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html [http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html]

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No limit, depends on how many/much cores, cpus, memory, disc that your host computer has, and the workload your VMs create.
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No limit, depends on how many/much cores, cpus, memory, disc that your host computer has, and the workload your VMs create.

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You can refer to this document<br />
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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf</a><br />
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I am trying to find the doc I read before. The limitation comes from the number of physical process (I think it's 6), total number of cores/process (6) &nbsp;and the total amount of memory (256GB) ESXi supports.<br />
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I don't know what you want to run but for plain Windows 2008 Server Standard vms, the low estimate is that you can easily run 3-4 per core given enough memory.<br />
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You can refer to this document

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf [http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf]

I am trying to find the doc I read before. The limitation comes from the number of physical process (I think it's 6), total number of cores/process (6)  and the total amount of memory (256GB) ESXi supports.

I don't know what you want to run but for plain Windows 2008 Server Standard vms, the low estimate is that you can easily run 3-4 per core given enough memory.



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sorry, typo. should be &quot;processor&quot; not process.
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sorry, typo. should be "processor" not process.

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Is there any limitation on how many VM's you can/may install under the Vmware vSphere's FREE Hypervisor?<br />
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regards,<br />
Peter
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Is there any limitation on how many VM's you can/may install under the Vmware vSphere's FREE Hypervisor?

regards,
Peter

How many VM's on Vmware vSphere's FREE Hypervisor

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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.