When I reached out to the person that emailed me the software/key I was told that the free software has no support and to ask in the community forums (even though I clearly explained what I thought was an issue with the files/keys I was sent)... Which is why I posted here.

Maybe things have gotten confused here. I'll outline everything. What I want and requested - Starwind Virtual HCI Appliance Free. What I was send in email - Software Download seemed to be VSAN, NOT Virtual HCI Appliance - Quick Start Guide was for Virtual HCI Appliance Free - Key labelled as Virtual...

Well I got it working but I'm still confused that there are many places where it's saying that functionality is limited by the free license. The only reason I was installing this software was the comparison chart showing the only difference between the free and paid software was the support plan (fr...

I figured it out.... when I signed up for Virtual HCI Appliance Free the link I went sent for the download apparently sent me the VSAN files.... I went back and signed up for the Virtual HCI Appliance 30 day trial and I was sent the right qcow2 file which then works fine with the Virtual HCI Applian...

The VM console window just has a login prompt and logging in with user/rds123RDS just drops me at a command prompt. https://imgur.com/a/ZfCWwGq When I go to https://192.168.2.127:9090 I get a login screen not the Initial Configuration wizard and if I log in a get to a UI but nothing matches what's i...

Did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same problem where after login to the brand new CVM that I am not prompted with the Initial Configuration Wizard as shown in the quick setup documents that I was sent along with the installation package.