I'm studying for my VCP exam and just had a quick question about how evaluation mode works. I understand that it lasts for 60 days. And my understanding is that for both versions all features will be unlocked just like you had Enterprise Plus licensing. And I know that you can use ESXi for free even after the evaluation mode runs out, although you won't have access to any of the features.
So I have a few questions:
1. Does this behavior work for ESX as well? For some reason I thought that ESX will just stop working after the 60 days, but can't find any documentation to prove or disprove that.
2. Is this licensing version of considered Essentials, or is it even below that?
3. Can you manage the hosts running the free version of ESXi with vCenter after the evaluation is up? Obviously the features wouldn't work, but I just wondered if you could have multipe ESXi hosts managed by Vcenter runnng in the free mode?
Thanks