We are having a chat this afternoon, at 3 pm central time, that is officially titled ESXi Features and Licensing. I think that I should have named it The Day After with ESXi because that more clearly gets to the questions that I people are having. Many have downloaded the newly free ESXi in the last month. Installation and creating an initial VM are usually the first steps that are taken. Then you go home, sleep on it, and start to really evaluate how to use ESXi the next day.

Initially a single server running ESXi maybe all that is needed. Questions about how it works and what it can do will need to be answered. This is the Features part of the chat today. Some will arrive at the conclusion that they may need some of the features that are included with VMware's Virtual Infrastructure which includes things like live migration, high availability, load balancing, and centralized management. There are actually lots of options in terms of licensing to upgrade the free ESXi into Virtual Infrastructure. This is the Licensing part of today's chat.

Todd