VMware (now Broadcom) officially ended General Support for vSphere 5.5 on . Even technical guidance ended in 2020. As of 2026,Broadcom has shifted entirely to a subscription-only model, removing free license keys and older legacy keys from their customer portals. Where are people finding keys?

your old hardware to a supported ESXi version

GitHub is a platform for source code and collaboration, not a software store. When users search for "esxi 5.5 license key github," they typically find three categories of repositories:

Users often dump old, functional, "perpetual" license keys in Gists.

If the repository includes a file named keygen , activator , patch , or crack – do not run it. It is malware.