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ESXi 5.5 free version

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Hello,
i use ESXi 5.5 with the 60 Day testing. i will activate it with the free licence soon.
The FAQ tells me that the free version of ESXi isnt supported.

I installed Acronis Backup for VMware 9 yesterday on my ESXi. At the moment there running 2 VM with Windows 7 on it. I have done a backup, replicate to a nas and a recovery from this machines. I thought its not supported? Thank you for your answer.

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Hi Ralf,

The problem here is that during evaluation period (60 days) the ESXi host is not limited in functionality, i.e. all possible vSphere features are enabled. When the vSphere evaluation expires the vStorage API (required for backup/replication operations) and some other features will be automatically disabled by vSphere. So in other words the backup/replication functionality will work only until your vSphere evaluation expires.

Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Backup for VMware Program Manager