ESXi Free Hypervisor is back In 2024 Broadcom announced the end of availability for the free edition of the ESXi Hypervisor. Now in 2025 it is back. This was announced in the vSphere 8.0.3e Release Notes . Broadcom makes available the VMware vSphere Hypervisor version 8, an entry-level hypervisor. No Broadcom support is available for this offering and it is for non-production use. vSphere…