I need a vSphere license key for the "free" tier, but I need it to be for vSphere 5.5 not 6.0. All I can seem to find at ...

Then I installed ESXi 5.1 onto a flash drive and... registered the host. OOPS. Like 90% of the available features disappeared thanks to using the free license. For example, I can no longer clone VMs ...

VMware made a long-anticipated move July 22 when it announced that its ESXi hypervisor would be free. That doesn’t mean VMware customers can avoid pricey fees for support and management tools, though.