On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 12:40 -0700, Drew wrote:
The free ESXi can virtualize more then three guests. The limitations imposed on the free license revolve more around advanced capabilities within the suite. Things like vMotion (automatic guest migration between hosts), High Availability, etc are disabled.
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd...
Down at the bottom you'll find the edition comparatives.
Thanks for that. Obviously, I am not entirely informed with respect to ESXi. I've used VMWare Server on Linux and MS Windows (XP, 2003) and, while it worked, I wasn't satisfied with the performance for a production environment. Due to my limited budget, I've been 'scared off' from setting up a ESXi testing environment, though it is still 'on my list of things to do'.