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Aren’t vSphere licenses a bit expensive for the average homelab? I personally went with a larger former workstation with more cores and RAM, because I expect to

by mtsr 6y ago

Aren’t vSphere licenses a bit expensive for the average homelab? I personally went with a larger former workstation with more cores and RAM, because I expect to only ever have a single node, even if I’d love to have a full cluster.

InvaderFizz 6y ago
VMUG Advantage membership ($200/year) gets you a 6 socket, non-production license for basically the entire VMWare catalog.
- op00to 6y ago
  For $0/year I can run Linux and ovirt.
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  - sithadmin 6y ago
    That won't help you very much if the goal is to maintain familiarity with VMware products (which is the entire point of the VMUG licensing scheme).
yakk0 6y ago
just the ESXi hypervisor is free for non-production use.
ex3ndr 6y ago
I found recently that they got 500 bucks license for 6 CPUs now! I think it is doable since it is lifetime license (without updates though after a year(?)).