Having gone through multiple Update cycles (U1, U2, U3), it is incredibly stable.

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ESXi 7.0 is a Type-1 hypervisor (bare metal). It must control the hardware directly. You cannot carry it on a hard drive and launch it like Microsoft Word. However, you can create a portable installation media or a portable boot device .

Since Broadcom's acquisition, direct trial downloads are no longer as accessible to the general public as they once were. To download the software today, you generally have three official paths: