Why would i want to do this? You may need to do this if you are working with standalone ESXi hosts with no vCenter, or if you just like playing around in your Homelab. Figuring out how to solve such problems, extends your knowledge of ESXi, which can help you in future scenarios. In this case, I wanted to move some VMs from my old Lab on a NUC running Free ESXi, to my new Lab which is running on a separate ESXi host. Both labs are running on the same private subnet range (192

For as long as i can remember, there has been a free version of VMware's ESXi Hypervisor, simply branded as VMware Hypervisor Free...

I had some fun and games setting this up, so I thought i'd blog the process for others in case its useful. Firstly, configuring working...