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ESXi 5.5 free Version has no more hard limitations of 32GB of RAM

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

ESXi 5.5 free limitations has been lifted by VMware. VMware ESXi 5.5 Free version limitations to 32 GB of physical RAM only is gone! VMware has introduced the new enhanced version of VMware vSphere 5.5 yesterday during VMworld 2013 in SF. So this kind of information interests the whole virtualization ecosystem. But concerning virtualization at home, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 5.5 Free

Installation of ESXi 5.5 in VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Hi all. This is a simple demo of installation of the latest build of ESXi 5.5 (build 1198610) in VMware Workstation, as the product will be released in couple of days. The latest improvements of VMware vSphere 5.5 offers twice as more (x2) everything (vCPU, Memory, storage), 62TB virtual disks, vSAN, vFlash, AppHA…. ++++.  The latest […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Installation of ESXi 5.5

Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 – New Book

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

VMware vSphere 5.5 has been announced, but it’s not available yet. New release of popular vSphere Book – Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 has been announced and also only in pre-order at Amazon for now. I believe that everyone else lives on What’s happening during VMworld 2013 San Francisco, right? Check out my VMworld 2013 Blog Page! I […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5

VMware vSphere 5.5 Low Latency Applications Enhancements

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

vSphere 5.5 introduces new features for Low latency applications which can be like databases, high performance computing (HPC) or stock trading systems. Those applications and latency sensitive workloads, where the network packets cannot have delay. Usually a in-memory database applications or trading applications. Requirements: Fast response time Predictable response times (jitter) VMware vSphere 5.5 Low […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: low latency applications VMware, vSphere 5.5

VMware vSphere 5.5 Networking New Features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

VMware vSphere 5.5 released brought many new features in virtual networking. The details about NSX (network virtualization) will be covered in separate post as this is completely new technology. In this post we’ll just covers the enhancements and new features brought with vSphere 5.5. If you don’t know what is LACP for. LACP allows to select […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere 5.5 Networking

VMware vSphere 5.5 Application High Availability – AppHA

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 7, 2020

VMware has introduced new Application HA in vSphere 5.5. It is a new feature which enables to protect tier one applications like SQL, or IIS against failures. Those applications are monitored and in case their service fails, the App HA is able to detect and restart this application. The product present itself as a virtual […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere App HA, vSphere AppHA

VMware vSphere 5.5 Storage New Features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

VMware vSphere 5.5 introducing larger virtual disk size (up to 62Tb) which requires ESXi 5.5, where existing VMDKs can be grown (offline). Those large VMDKs are supported also on the newly released vSAN datastores. You can grow the VMDKs, but for now its an offline process. VMware has it on the roadmap on the future […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere 5.5 Storage

VMware VSAN introduced in vSphere 5.5 – How it works and what’s the requirements?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 15, 2017

VMware vSAN allows presenting locally attached storage (SSD and HDD) to create clustered datastore. VMware vSAN is a software feature is built into the hypervisor. To be able to leverage VMware vSAN, you’ll need to associate at least one HDD and one SSD in each of the servers participating in the vSAN cluster, where the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSAN, vSAN, vSphere 5.5

VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 – what’s new?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

With the recent release of VMware vSphere 5.5, the VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 has been released as well. There are new features present in vSphere Replication 5.5, which are really helpful and that are giving the possibility to construct very advanced replication scenarios for remote offices. Those remote offices do not need vCenter server installed. […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: vSphere 5.5, vSphere Replication

VMware vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache with VFFS

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

New version of VMware vSphere has introduced VMware vFlash Read cache, which enables you to use local SSD devices pooled together forming a pool of storage tier. The vFlash is integrated with vMotion, HA and DRS. The solution, the vFlash caching software, is tightly integrated into the hypevizor (placed into the data path), as an […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vFlash Read Cache

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