nate wrote: > You don't really need to buy anything, you do if you want > fancy enterprise-like management of multiple systems from > one screen. And there are limitations in ESXi, it certainly > isn't equivalent in abilities to enterprise or standard edition. I've been repeatedly told ( including by people @vmware ) that you need the VI-client in order to get a management interface on ESXi, which neither runs on Linux nor is freely available. Am I being lied to ? - KB