ESXi and Virtual Center

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• ESXi (free) and virtual Center.  I have to buy ESXi Foundation to manage?

  I have a bunch of servers ESXi (free) and now I want to manage them centrally.  I have the pirce for virtual Center, but I'm not quite clear on whether or not I need to change the ESXi license or not?

  Thank you

  Hey,.

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/ESX_Server_3i_presentation.PDF

  Take a look at page 12, it will show the different types of licenses with ESXi.

  You will need to buy at least the basic license to enable management of the VC.

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• ESX3.5 and Virtual Center update to 4.1

  Hi all:

  I need your help with VI3 infrastructure upgrade to 4.1. We currently have 2 ESX3.5 hosts (in two places), and we run a Virtual Center Server 2.5. What is the way easier and less painful to upgrade to ESX 4.1

  the first step is to upgrade you its modules and vCenter Server.  ESX4.1 must be managed by vCenter4.1

• After changing the IP address of the server licenses and Virtual Center... «not enough licenses...» »

  Hello

  We change the Virtual Center and the license server IP (I saw here how to do it stop Virtual Center, change, delete and add servers... etc...). Now the virtual Center its ok, but when Ive tried to make the cluster, virtual center of reports me a "there is not enough licenses", and I lost the connection to the license server... any ideas?... I reread the license server, restart the Center Virtual/license server... restart the hosts... Remove and add hosts again...

  Thanks in advance

  See the bottom of this knockout under NOTE:

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/5850444

  Also check that your features licensed licensed Source is always pointing to the correct license server.

• The addition of ESXi in Virtual Center

  Hello

  When you try to add the ESXi server, it asks:

  That's what I saw in the virtual Center

  

  you're out agents from vCenter for ESX.  To add the host in question, you will have to remove another or acquire several licenses.  However you can still manage, but not in your vCenter server.

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• ESXi and virtual machine CPU cores

  The question I would ask is the ESXi processor cores and relationship of the virtual machine CPU. Is it recommended to assign some carrots to VM (this is assuming that the VM needs CPU extra for reasons of performance)? We will use the following example. If the host ESXi lies the VM has 40 cores of the processor is recommended to assign carrots in 2, 4, 8 format to the virtual machine? And that's okay assign 6 since 40 is not divisible by 6.

  jrmunday: when it comes to carrots vs sockets, they are there for purpioses licenses, other than one vcpu is a vcpu

  soda: each kernel is a vcpu, so you should not worry of the underlying hardware and the divisibbility... It is not a mathematical formula to be used on the basis of underlying archatecture. the only reason underlying archatecutre would be important is VCA differences, not the underlying differences.

• File transfers slow of ESXi to Virtual Center (physical)

  VCenter is attached with 1 Gb ethernet

  ESXi systems are 10 GB ethernet

  iSCSI is about 10 GB ethernet

  When I 'Browse the data store' and go to download a large file (.tar), since the iSCSI that transfer data store is very slow (despite being fast for normal activities of VM).  It works most of the time, sometimes reaching more than 70-80% briefly before returning less than 1% less than 1%.  Here is the graph of the network even if a transfer is in progress:

  

  No idea why this is happening?

  Hello

  It's really weird, have you tried to download the file using WinSCp or of Veeam FastSCP? If not, give it a try with one of the tools.

  What is the transfer between vCenter and other servers? Maybe that's a problem with the settings of duplex of incompatibility between the card port and switch network vCenter?

  See you soon
  Artur
  

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• With the help of ESXi and vCenter

  Hi all, I have some doubts on the use of ESXi and Virtual Center.

  Recently, we have set up 2 servers ESX with Virtual Center, all allowed in the Standard edition to have an available shared storage and HA.

  Our idea is to set up a new server with ESXi installed for testing purposes.

  Is possible to manage this server ESXi with our real VirtualCenter or we need a license? This particular server does NOT use shared storage or HA.

  Thanks for your help!

  Kind regards

  Diego

  Yes, you need a license for ESXi manage VirtualCenter. You can purchase the license to the Foundation. Please see the license attached (on page 3)

  Shan

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• License for Virtual Center 2.0.1 and ESX 3.0.1

  ESX and Virtual Center licenses are retro-compatible? It seems that I can only buy licenses for the current versions of ESX and Virtual Center (vCenter Server), but what I need is additional Virtual Center 2.0.1 and ESX 3.0.1 licenses.

  Yes, they are.

• The upgrade of the Virtual Center 2 update 4 update?

  I am currently running ESXi on IBm blades and they are running version 3i, 3.5.0 Update 2

  We have Virtual Center 3.5 Update 2 installed as well.

  We seek to improve our 3i to 4 upgrade ESX and Virtual Center.  I was looking through the upgrade guide, but there wasn't this listed scenario.

  My plan was to:

  Take c and inplace upgrade of the Virtual Center Update 2 to 4 update server

  VMotion invited out of one of our blades, then update the blade and bring guests.

  Am I missing something?  Are there documents more precise that lists how should I do this?

  seems good... Just get a full backup of your DB vCenter before starting.

  The Upgrade Guide can be helpful as well.

  Also, VMware tools for your guest will require an upgrade as well.

  http://www.VMware.com/support/VI3/doc/vi3_esx3i_i_35u4_rel_notes.html

• Using of MS Cluster HA providing virtual Center 4.0

  Hi, we currently use ESX3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5, I'm about to start an update on all our services for 4.0 VSphere and virtual Center 4.0.  For the moment, we have a node two MS Cluster to connect to the DAS storage that supports Virtual Center 2.5.  I need to know if 1: VCentre 4.0 is supported running on a MS Cluster and 2: are there documents describing the process to create the cluster group.

  I did this several times for VCenter 2.5, but I am not able to find info on VCentre 4 and all my research seems to lead me VCentre Heartbeat.

  Any help is appreciated.

  The "Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service" for vCenter 4.1 can be downloaded from http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_mscs.pdf and vCenter 4.0 use link http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_mscs.pdf

  I hope this information helps

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• Virtual Center Server not joined to a domain

  The environment is ESX 3.5 update 5 and Virtual Center Server 2.5 update 5.

  My question is; Virtual Center Server 2.5 can be installed on a W2003 server that is not joined to a domain?

  If the installation is possible what are the disadvantages and consequences?

  At a later date, the server can be attached to a field and Virtual Center updated accordingly? Thanks,-Jeff

  My question is; Virtual Center Server 2.5 can be installed on a W2003 server that is not joined to a domain?

  Yes.

  If the installation is possible what are the disadvantages and consequences?

  Depends on if you are using ad groups / users to connect to vcenter.  Otherwise, you must use local accounts for vCenter to provide user access to your vCenter cluster.  Adding the vCenter in the field would facilitate this in the future add / secure users.

  and Yes, you can join vCenter to the domain at any time, but it requires a reboot...

• ESX, ESXi and vCenter and virtual machines

  Hello all - I need to re - certify my VCP this month so I decided to sit down this weekend to set up a virtual lab.  I managed to get ESX, ESXi and vCenter working all in s vm on my laptop in less than 4 GB.  I use Player version 3 for now.  I have Workstation 6.5 but I have to spend my VCP to get a key of 7 workstations and improve it.

  The manual is a bit long, but here is the link if you are interested.  I'll update everything to Workstation 7 after my review.  I hope that some of you find it useful!

  http://blog.aarondelp.com/2009/11/VMware-data-center-in-box-using-VMware.html

  Aaron Delp

  http://blog.aarondelp.com

  http://blog.scottlowe.org/author/adelp/

  Nice - Thanks for posting.

  I doubt that you must update for Workstation 7 as VMplayer 3 is nothing else than a torn Workstation 7. It has the same basic functionality.

  So, nothing will be different if you use Workstation

  By the way - Starwind is really nice simulate a San.

  Another interesting thing, that you know may not...

  It is possible to assign up to 8 GB of RAM to your virtual ESXs, even if the host itself has only 4 GB of RAM.

  For this I have

  prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = 'TRUE '.

  prefvmx.minVmMemPct = '5 '.

  in the file config.ini from the host. Do not run and then

  Using this trick, I was able to run 4 ESX virtual machines on my laptop 4 GB RAM running 2 k 3-32 bit host

  Ulli

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• Virtual WiFi not presentation, it disappears from the network and sharing Center.

  Original title: Virtual WiFi not presentation

  Hello

  I created Virtual Wi Fi cmd (netsh wlan), first it was created and posted his icon in the network and sharing Center, after that show how I disabled it from the network and sharing Center by clicking on the icon and pressing the button disable I pressed off it disappear from the network and sharing Center.

  Can someone help how to activate it so that I see her back icon in network and sharing Center.

  Thank you

  Hello

  You have virtual map of Wi - Fi enabled in Device Manager?

  This problem may occur if network settings are changed.

  You try to run the following command check if it helps.

  a. press on the key Windows + X.

  b. click on (Admin) command prompt.

  c. type the command netsh wlan start hostednetwork and press on Enter.

  If the problem persists, I recommend posting your query in the TechNet Forums to get help:

  8.1 Windows networking forums

  Let us know if you need help with Windows related issues. We will be happy to help you.

• Update ESXi with a Virtual Center Server

  Hello

  I've updated a Standalone ESXi server using this guide

  http://www.vmadmin.co.UK/VMware/35-esxserver/262-esxvihostupdate

  It works the same way during the updating of the ESXi servers that are under a virtual Center Server?

  Thank you

  as part of the upgrade, using Crossover, a new vCenter agent is pushed. So, no, you don't break anything.