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Hi

I am completey new to the world of server virtualisation. I come from a networking background, but networking is becoming virtualised too. So I want to prep for MY CCIE and I need to learn Cisco DNAC which has to run on ESXi, but I know nothing about ESXi. I want to setup a home lab and have some dumb questions regarding ESXi . The minimu requirements to host DNAC are 96GB of RAM and 10 vCPUs I have a HP Z440 with 128 GB and a single CPU with 18 physical / 36 virtual cores. My question is about what is the lowest cost Esxi license I can get away with, or how would I go about getting an evaluation license. I am only using the software for studies and reinstalling the software periodically would not be a big issue.

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This is tricky because with the Broadcom acquisition, esxi free and the eval copies are gone. If you can find an iso of esxi it will still install with a trial licenses. To be honest, may be worthwhile to setup Proxmox of even Hyper-V just to get your hands in some virtualization.

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I agree, broadcom pretty much has killed vmware, see if they have a Hyper-v or another hypervisor version you can use it on.

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Hi

Thanks for that. The problem I have is that the Cisco requirements document specify it has to be an ESXi server to install the DNAC virtual machine, so I am not entirely sure if it would work in Hyper-V. So at the moment I am considering my options. Also now that there is no free version of ESXi getting hold of an eval copy is proving a little tricky, but thanks for your help anyway.

Regards

Chris M.

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Here you go, archive.com has already put it on there for 7.0 which should be fine.