ESXi on this estateESXi on hardware you rent anonymously.

ESXi is offered because a lot of organisations run vSphere and their tooling, runbooks and staff knowledge are built around it. Moving a workload to a different hypervisor to change jurisdiction is two projects when you only wanted one.

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VMware ESXi

The enterprise default, on your own hardware. Bring your own licence — the free tier is gone.

On the menu

VMware ESXi 8

Installed from the upstream image, unmodified, with no agent and no vendor account on it. What you get on first boot is what upstream published.

The facts a chooser compares

Type: Type-1 hypervisor, installs on the metal
Licence: Bring your own; the free edition was withdrawn by Broadcom
Management: Host client, or your own vCenter
Storage: VMFS, NFS, iSCSI
Hardware: Compatibility list matters — ask before ordering

Machines it runs on

And what the cheapest one costs.

Every price on this estate is the price. No setup fee, no minimum term and no first-month discount that doubles in the second.

Cloud VPS Not offered — Another image runs here
Dedicated Servers Available $59/mo See the plans
Windows RDP Not offered — Another image runs here
GPU Compute Not offered — Another image runs here

How it gets there

Pick the image in the configurator, pay, and it boots.

No ticket, no identity documents, no call. The image list is on the configurator itself, one field below the plan, and a virtual machine is live in about fifty-five seconds.

Open the configurator See every price

The licensing situation, stated plainly

Broadcom withdrew the free ESXi edition and reorganised the licensing after acquiring VMware. ESXi here is bring-your-own-licence, and if you do not already have one, the honest advice is to look at Proxmox before you buy one.

That is not a swipe at VMware. It is that a page recommending a licence purchase it does not sell, when a free alternative does the same job, would be a page written for somebody else’s benefit.

Hardware compatibility

ESXi is much fussier about hardware than Linux is, particularly on storage controllers and network cards. Tell an engineer that ESXi is the plan before you order and the build gets specified to the compatibility list, which is what custom builds are for.

Where it makes sense here

As an offshore extension of an existing vSphere estate: same tooling, same runbooks, different jurisdiction and a company that never learned who you are. That is a narrow case and a real one.

Questions people actually ask

Do you sell VMware licences?

No. Bring your own, or use Proxmox.

Will ESXi install on any of your machines?

Not necessarily — the hardware compatibility list is real. Say so before ordering and the build is specified for it.

What it is genuinely good at

Existing tooling. If your organisation runs vSphere, everything you already have keeps working.
Mature operational tooling, and staff who already know it — usually the real reason and a perfectly good one.
Straightforward to fit into an existing estate as an offshore extension of it.

Choose a different one if

Proxmox VE You are starting fresh. Proxmox does the same job, costs nothing, and has not just been through a licensing upheaval.

That list is here because a page that cannot name a situation where something else is the right answer is an advertisement. Every image on this estate is included in the price of the machine, so there is nothing to sell you here — only the one that fits.

Versions and support dates are checked against upstream when they change. Last revised 30 July 2026.

Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue

The rest of the same kind

What you install on bare metal when the machine is going to be a platform rather than a server.

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