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It's only the license key applied to ESXi server, which changes it from Registered FREE, to Licensed.
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I was reading a solution and someone said you can't backup the free version of ESXi<br />
so if there is a free version there must be a paid version
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I was reading a solution and someone said you can't backup the free version of ESXi
so if there is a free version there must be a paid version

It&#39;s only the license key applied to ESXi server, which changes it from Registered FREE, to Licensed.

Is there a Paid Version of VMware&#39;s ESXi?

I was reading a solution and someone said you can&#39;t backup the free version of ESXi
so if there is a free version there must be a paid version

Is there a Paid Version of VMware's ESXi?

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.