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Original Publication : August 13, 2013
In my last post, I talked about the product-related aspects of delivering free backup for VMware vSphere (also called free ESXi or unlicensed ESXi.) Thought folks might be interested in how we went about announcing it.
First, the coverage has been outstanding! Here's an incomplete list of just a few of the analysts, blogs, and others who wrote about what we're offering:
- Storage Switzerland: VMworld 2013 Interview with Unitrends
- CRN: VMworld 2013: 20 Must-See Storage Offerings (Part 1) (8/28)
- eWeek: Unitrends Offers No-Cost, 4VM Backup for Free vSphere Version (8/28)
- The VAR Guy: VMworld 2013 Solutions Exchange Vendor Wrapup for VARs (8/28)
- Columbia Regional Business Report: Unitrends' new backup product takes on Microsoft (8/27)
- DABCC.com: Unitrends Delivers Industry's First Free Backup and Recovery Solution for Unlicensed Version of VMware vSphere Hypervisor (8/27)
- StorageReview.com: Unitrends Enterprise Backup Free Edition with Support for Free VMware vSphere Announced (8/27)
- Virtual-Strategy Magazine: Unitrends Delivers Industry's First Free Backup and Recovery Solution for Unlicensed Version of VMware vSphere Hypervisor (8/27)
- Tom's IT Pro: Unitrends Intros Free Backup, Recovery for vSphere Hypervisor (8/28)
- VirtualizationSoftware.com: Free Data Protection for Free VMware vSphere ESXi from Unitrends (8/28)
But it gets even more interesting. We actually won an award for best SMB product! Well, kind of. It turns out that at the last moment we didn't receive it – because we didn't have a booth at VMworld.
Why didn't Unitrends have a booth at VMworld? The reason is pretty simple. We tend to watch every dollar we spend pretty carefully. Last year we got a booth, sent tons of people, gave away a motorcycle, and at the end of the day we weren't thrilled with the results in terms of reaching people who were interested in backup.
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So this year we tried something very, very different. We asked a person at Unitrends named Jenn Sipala to lead a guerrilla effort at VMworld centered around the idea of making people aware of a new offering we were planning (the Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ Free Edition product for free VMware vSphere.) Jenn led a cross-functional team including our corporate marketing group (led by Jenn Sullivan, our leader of marketing at Unitrends, with work by Katie Drucker and Kelly Lowe at VMworld, Tina Dussault on the web site, Paul Nashawaty in alliance/analyst marketing), our leader of business development Lee MacIllwinen, Mark Bloom and Bob Gagnon (channel), Tommy Phan (sales engineering), and our evangelist Maria Pressley. And of course this doesn't include the models who helped us as well.
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Wow! That's a lot of folks and a lot of cross-functional coordination, huh? And I've got to tell you – we're pleased with the results. Next year, I believe we'll marry the two concepts and have a booth while we go guerrilla.
In the meantime, it's incredibly gratifying to see the product get such glowing reviews. A lot of time we focus on the R&D – the developers – and we'll do that another time here. But quite often marketing and sales and G&A (Teresa and Jake) and QA (Joe C.) and a lot of others are also doing heroic work – so a thank you to all.
vSphere 6.0 released and we are started evaluating the features of our brand new hypervisor with our evaluation license. The evaluation period is 60 days but do you think 60 days is not enough to keep your hands dirty with ESXi 6.0. It will be time-consuming to re-install ESXi 6 every 60 days after your evaluation license is expired. Don't worry, VMware provides us with the Free ESXi 6.0 Hypervisor with non-expired license keys. VMware ESXi Free version is the same download as the full ESXi with exact same ISO but stays unlocked only for 60 days. If you don't enter the serial number for the free version, the product works as full version during 60 days. When the trial period ends and the product locks out the advanced features and becomes VMware ESXi free.
VMware ESXi Free vs PAID
What is VMware ESXi Free Limitations?
- 2 (physical) CPU limit
- No limit on Physical Memory
- Number of cores per physical CPU: No limit
- Maximum vCPU per virtual machine: 8
- You can't Manage Free ESXi from vCenter Server
- No Support from VMware Support (GSS)
How to Download ESXi Free License?
Download Procedure for both Paid and ESXi Free is same and Moreover, both are the same ISO image. Download the VMware ESXi 6.0 Free Hypervisor installer image along with free license keys.
Register or Login with your VMware account credentials
Once you have logged in, you will be provided with the option to download the ESXi 6.0 Installation ISO and VMware vSphere client along with the VMware ESXi Free License Keys.
How to apply ESXi Free license to ESXi host?
Once the installers are download. Complete the ESXi 6.0 installation or upgrade. Connect to your ESXi host using vSphere Client.
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Click on Configuration tab and select Licensed Features. Click on Edit. Below are the product features which are available as part of vSphere Evaluation License.
Enter the license key and Click on Ok.
ESXi is turned to Free ESXi now with No Expiration.
We are done with the free ESXi license key assignment with no expiration.
How to Perform Backup of VM's running in Free ESXi?
Free ESXi does not support vStoage API and hence no native backup support for Free ESXi versions. If you are using Windows VM, use its native backup or agent-based backup for VM's running on Free ESXi.
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