VMware ESX Server Version 3.5

VMware ESX Server Version 3.5 VMware Infrastructure 3 is a feature-rich suite that delivers the production-proven efficiency, availability, and dynamic management needed to create a responsive data center. This is the install CD image that can be burned to CD. This does not include the license file. You will have to look for that on your own. But it's out there.

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CheeseFrog (2008-08-05)

Anybody get this thing to work on a laptop... of any kind?

CheeseFrog (2008-08-05)

I meant ESX in general, not this particular image.

tange1 (2008-08-24)

ESX is very hardware specific - only certain HBA's and NIC's are supproted. Since the core of ESX is proprietary they only write drivers for hardware they want to support. -- That being said the hardware they support might not be cheap but its the best. Remember - ESX server isn't a consumer product - its a business grade product.

dthardcore (2008-09-15)

Why would you want to install this on a laptop anyways? First or all you would need a really powerful laptop that has components that are supported by ESX server so you could actually run virtual machines at a decent speed and second of all the esx server is managed from a secondary computer. you do not actually manage very much from the Host machine at all. all virtual machine setup and most other configurations are done using the VIClient from a secondary machine. do yourself a favor and read the documentation for the product before you just jump into it. Also you can get a free license key from the VMWare site, you lose some of the features like Vmotion but that is only useful if you have multiple ESX servers to move your virtual machines between. their site has a lot of Docs and other useful stuff to look at before you start.

ra303 (2008-11-06)

to install ESX 3.5 on a laptop u need to first install Vmware Workstation then install ESX3.5. A good guide is here:

get the VI3.5 in a box - ESX3.5 on Workstation 6.5 Build 118166 white paper.

ra303 (2008-11-06)

here is the direct link

nov_mode (2009-12-13)

Where can I get a license for this? Also what about the updates? I tried vmware.com for the updates but wont give me them unless i register a serial number.