NOTE: After installation of the ESXi Driver Rollup ISO, VMware strongly recommends applying the ESXi 5.5.0 patches related to Heartbleed, a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL version 1.0.1a-f. See KB2076121 and KB2076589 for details. I just installed VMware ESXi 5.5 Free Edition on a Dell server, when I open up VMware vSphere Client it says the following: 'In vSphere 5.5, all new.
I am sure every VMware Administrator will be happy with the Release of vSphere client 5.5 Update 2 (Build Number:1993072)because it allow us to edit the Virtual machines settings with the hardware version 10 using vSphere Windows Client (C# version). It was not possible with the previous release of vSphere Client. You will only be allowed to edit the Virtual Machine with hardware version 10 (vmx-10) using vSphere Web client. As i experienced, even now most of admins are very comfortable working with vSphere Windows client as compared to the web client. Even during many instances when the web client was down or crashed, we were unbale to work with the virtual machines with vmx-10. We may end up performing the VM settings edit using powercli commands or even sometimes we did downgrading the Virtual machine hardware version from .vmx file to work with the vmx-10 virtual machines.
With the release of vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2, you will be allowed to edit the virtual machines with hardware version 10 (vmx-10). Even you don’t need to upgrade your vCenter or ESXi host to vSphere 5.5 update 2. You simply need to install the vSphere Client 5.5 update 2 to edit the virtual machine (vmx-10)settings.
Download VMware vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2
Install vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2 and Connect to your vCenter server using vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2. That’s it you will be able to edit your Virtual Machine with hardware version 10 (vmx-10) using vSphere windows client.
Dec 22, 2014 Download VMware vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2 Install vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2 and Connect to your vCenter server using vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2. That’s it you will be able to edit your Virtual Machine with hardware version 10 (vmx-10) using vSphere windows client.
Above virtual Machine ” VM-HWVersion10″ with VM Version 10 can be edited using vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2 with Restricted Edit option from vSphere Windows Client.
Edit VM settings or add Hardwares for your Virtual machine with VM HW version 10 (vmx-10).That’s it. You Virtual Machine reconfiguration was successful.
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vSphere 5.5 released and we are evaluating the features of our brand new hypervisor with our evaluation license. Evaluation period is 60 days but do you think 60 days is not enough to keep your hands dirty with ESXi 5.5 .It will be time consuming to re-install ESXi 5.5 every 60 days after your evaluation license is expired. Don’t worry, VMware provide us with the Free ESXi 5.5 Hypervisor with no more physical RAM hard limit.Download the VMware ESXi 5.5 Free Hypervisor installer image along with free license keys.
Register or Login with your VMware account credentials
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Download Vmware Vsphere Client 5.5.0
Once you have logged in , You will have been provided with the option to download the ESXi 5.5 Installation ISO and VMware vSphere client along with the Free license key for ESXi 5.5 Hypervisor.
Once the installers are download. Complete the ESXi 5.5 installation or Upgrade and Connect to your ESXi host using vSphere Client.
Click on Configuration tab and select Licensed Features. Click on Edit
Download Vmware Esxi Client 5.5
Enter the license key and Click on Ok.
You are done with the ESXi 5.5 free license key assignment and it is never Expires now. I believe this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading !!!