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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.
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VMware vSphere Hypervisor is the new name for ESXi.
The free download is available from here
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html
You need to register to download for free.
The latest versions is ESXi 5.0
Here are the documents for ESXi 4.1.
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esxi41_i_vc41.html
Getting Started Guide
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_esxi_i_get_start.pdf
Please make sure you server is on the Hardware Compatibility List
http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/search.php
and you use a 64 bit server and enable Intel Virtualisation Tecnology also called Intel-VT.