Here’s an interesting, slightly dramatic text for grabbing attention around an — useful for a blog, internal IT post, or lab note. Title: The Last Great VMware Release Before the Storm: ESXi 7.0 & The Broadcom Shift

Before vCenter started nagging about subscription models… Before Broadcom turned the partner ecosystem upside down… There was — the final, polished gem of the classic VMware era.

Still — for a vintage lab , a retro homelab , or that one legacy medical device VM that refuses to move? This ISO is gold.

👉 It’s about keeping air-gapped labs alive, legacy production running, or building a home cluster that doesn’t phone home every 5 minutes.