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It cannot be added to for centralized management.
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Given Broadcom’s aggressive business shift toward subscription models (selling VCF and VVF bundles), the future of the standalone free hypervisor is uncertain. As of mid-2025, the free ESXi 8 ISO is still downloadable, but Broadcom has quietly removed many support forums for free users. It cannot be added to for centralized management
To download any ESXi ISO, you must have a VMware Customer Connect account (formerly My VMware). Simply put: To download any ESXi ISO, you must have
The hypervisor is free. There is zero reason to risk a backdoored ISO.
For unsupported NICs or storage controllers (common in whitebox home labs), you may need to create a with drivers injected. Tools like: