Rich Brambley over at VMetc.com updated his very popular article about the difference between the free ESXi and the licensed ESXi. One major improvement since Update 3 is:

  RCLI is no longer read only. You can read and write changes thus making remote administration possible.

Thanks Rich for the update!

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