End Of General Availability of the free vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x and 8.x)

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi
• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0
• VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0
• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0

Issue/Introduction

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free edition) is no longer available on the VMware website.

Environment

• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0.x
• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0
• VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.0
• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7
• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5

Resolution

As part of the transition of perpetual licensing to new subscription offerings, the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (Free Edition) has been marked as EOGA (End of General Availability). At this time, there is not an equivalent replacement product available.

For further details regarding the affected products and this change, we encourage you to review the following blog post: VMware End Of Availability of Perpetual Licensing and SaaS Services.