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NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a comprehensive solution which can safeguard your business workloads in a fast and reliable manner. Today’s blog post explores features of free VMware ESXi as well as restrictions and limitations that await you if you use this version of an ESXi hypervisor. Each VMware vSphere edition has its own price but VMware also provides a free version of ESXi. An ESXi hypervisor is provided as a part of VMware vSphere which, in turn, comes with different licensing options for each edition. More and more people as well as companies are deploying ESXi servers in their environments for running virtual machines. VMware is one of the market leaders of virtualization solutions and VMware ESXi is a well-known type 1 hypervisor that is highly respected by IT specialists.

This is a more complicated setup to manage, and provides different restore options, however it will allow you to proceed with backing up your business critical data without changing your VMWare licensing.By Michael Bose Free VMware ESXi: Restrictions and Limitations If a commercial-grade VMWare license is not something you would like to explore at the moment, you can instead switch to using our OS-specific backup solutions by deploying them on every VM that you need to backup. There is a second solution, however it is less convenient. This will allow you to proceed with backing up your virtual machines via the VM Edition of our software, and will resolve the error you are encountering. The primary and recommended strategy would be to upgrade your VMWare license to Essentials or further (any commercial VMWare license has full support for VADP). There are two ways you can solve this problem. The root cause of this issue is that free (non-commercial) VMware licenses do not provide sufficient support of VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection (formerly known as VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection or VADP). You are using VMware vSphere Hypervisor and your MSP360 VM Backup plan fails with the following error: ' Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation' Cause Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation

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