Hi folks, I'm relatively new to VMWare and hope you can help me with this decision. We currently have VMWare vSphere 4 installed. I need to deploy 2 new VMWare hosts and I'm trying to work out which VMWare version to deploy. I know there is a free version of ESXi 5 available that will be fine to host the VMs I need to run. I also know that if and when I want to upgrade those free VMWare licenses I can do.
My question is does the same hold true for ESXi 4 - is it free and can I upgrade the license as and when I want to? The advantage for deploying version 4 is that I can then add those hosts to my vSphere environment and use templating (we don't have any shared storage for vMotion or any other HA type features). Also are there any advantages of using ESXi 5 as opposed to 4.
Thoughts would be appreciated!
thanks
Alastair