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• Devices USB 3.0 not being seen by 5.5 ESXI (free version)

  I'm under 5.5 ESXI (free version) and I have recently just got 2 external drives 5 to, these are going to be my new NAS readers who are easily made by samba on a virtual machine Windows Ubuntu LTS 14.04. When I plug the readers to a port USB 2.0, the ESXI OS will detect them and allow me to add them to a virtual machine but USB 2.0 are slow and these drives are capable 3.0 and my motherboard has 2 3.0 ports then why not try to get the extra speed. When I plug these drives into the USB 3.0 ports OS ESXI cannot see them and when you try to add USB devices to the virtual computer it says no device available. No idea as to why this is? IM guess 3.0 is supported on ESXI 5.5 (free version) because it allows me to add a USB 3.0 controller support. Thanks in advance for any help.

  FIXED!

  I have SSH on the server and typed this command:

  lsusb

  It gave me a list of all my usb ports and devices. My 3.0 ports not appear. So I started the USB 3.0 xhci driver by typing this:

  vmkload_mod xhci

  then I typed in:

  lsusb

  again and then is! my cameras are now available!

  Add this command to the file /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh that it will always start with the loaded discs.

• What are the limits of vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi free version)

  Hello

  I have to buy the new server for ESXi free version. What are the limits of the CPU and RAM?

  Thank you

  Preeda

  www.thaivmadmin.com

  PreedaS wrote:

  Hello

  I have to buy the new server for ESXi free version. What are the limits of the CPU and RAM?

  There is unfortunately quite hard limits, for example 8 GB vRAM, it's the total amount of RAM to virtual machines. I suggest that you look at version 4.1 and not 5.0.

  (VMware is however always claim that the virtual machines on the free vSphere Hypervisor could use unlimited RAM. It is probably not correct.)

• PE 2950 III with ESXi free version?

  I have a PowerEdge 2950 III server on the way and I want to launch the free VMWare ESXi version. I know that Dell makes their own version (paying) with the built-in drivers... Will the free version to be an option for me, or it will never work because the drivers needed/missing? Or maybe I just need to build my own ISO and integrate the drivers of 2950 in it?

  PowerHomeUser

  I know that Dell made their own version (paying) with the built-in drivers

  Version of Dell isn't a paid version.  It is also free; they have, as a service to their clients, customized to include drivers for most of their systems.  You can build your own by integrating the drivers into the image manually, but that would be stupid given it already exists and is made by someone who knows what they are doing.

  http://www.Dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/driverdetails?DriverID=5YC4T

• ESXI free Version host failure - how to recover virtual machines?

  Hi all

  I ran a VMWare lab at home with a free version of ESXI 4.1.

  My server does not and I have to reset all the settings management of ESXI and I lost my virtual machines.

  I solved the problem, but I lost the virtual machine.

  When I navigate through the data store I can see the virtual hard disk for my servers.

  Is there a way to recover these virtual machines?

  I guess that I'm not the first to ask this question, so if you could point me to any page with some instruction, it would be great.

  Thanks in advance,

  Fabio

  Welcome to the VMware forums communities.  In each folder of the virtual machine, you should see a VMX file for the virtual machine.  This is the configuration file.  Right-click on it and select Add to the inventory.  Then follow the instructions of the wizard and after the virtual machine market.  If your network configuration is the same as previously, then you should be good to go.

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• Save one ESXi (free version) to another

  I have two servers ESXi I want to keep synchronized. Both servers have internal storage. A server is currently in production and contains all VM.   If I have a hardware failure on the production server, I want to switch to the backup server as quickly as possible.

  It seems that the only commercial backup product that supports the free version of ESXi is Veeam Backup.  However, Veeam Backup currently does not support ESXi as a replication target.

  My only option now, I guess, is to back up the production server for the internal storage of the backup server and then do a restore on the backup server, if necessary - correct?  Is ghettoVCB.sh my best option for this?  If so, this will work with the free version of ESXi?

  Thanks for any help.

  One option is to use ghettoVCB, although you'll have to SCP manually backups to your target host, it does not backup on another host. If you have shared storage such as NFS/SAN you can easily keep the two hosts synchronized, but if you're just using local storage, you'll need to script replication between the two once backups have taken place on your source host.

  You should look at setting up a server NFS in this way you shared storage between two hosts

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• ESXi - free version

  Hello

  Can a Please provide me with a link to official documentation where I can find the limitation on the free ESXi 5.1 version.

  Thank you

  Shashi

  Hello

  You can find here them restrict material:

  http://www.VMware.com/products/Datacenter-Virtualization/vSphere-hypervisor/requirements.html

  Concerning

• Moving from vm to ESXi (free version) to a new cluster of ESX 3.5

  Hi guys,.

  I just wanted to get some input on how I can possibly move a virtual machine on an ESXi server to a cluster of ESX servers.  Can I just copy the files of the full virtual machine since the ESXi data store in the ESX data store? Thank you.

  The easiest way is to use vmware converter: http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/

  Kind regards

  Gerrit Lehr

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• Free version of ESXi can support for configuration of start and stop virtual machines via vSphere Client?

  I have read and found some documents on ESXi.

  According to the documents, I know that ESXi free version does not support some advanced virtual machine configurations and does not support write to ESXi host permission. But when I download ESXi from vmware.com, I can't find the free version. He will always be a trial of the licensed version edition because I can always do the configuration of start and stop virtual machines via vSphere Client installation. I can also run scripts (lamw) pl in vMA to stop the ESXi host (authorization to write ok?)

  Then I confused. How can I get the really free version of ESXi? Or will the free version after 60 days of evaluation?

  Start/stop above configuration is in vSphere Client via 'Configuration'-> "start/stop VM"-> "Properties"... «-> "Allow the virtual computers start and stop automatically with the system" actions setting and stop virtual machines can be configured to "comments"turn off computer"or"Suspend".» Can any body tell me if it's supported by ESXi free edition?

  Is the free version of vSphere Client too? Because when I use the vSphere Client, he told me that I have 60 days of evaluation. This confused me again. I think that vSphere Client is always free, am I right?

  Any suggestion or advice is much appreciated.  ^_

  Micky

  Configuration of start and stop virtual machines is available with the free version and licensed, with the free version you would be configured everything via vSphere Client, where as with a licensed version, you can optionally use scripts to configure it and also issue restarts/stops using scripts.

  Second, shutdownHostViaSOAPAPICall.pl for the version licensed and free of ESX (i), this script will work in both free and licensed because it uses direct SOAP calls emulating the vSphere Client communication. Take a look at the documentation for details, but this of course is not supported by VMware.

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• Help - what is and what is not available in free version of ESXi 3.5 U4?  VIMA?  VI Toolkit?

  Hello

  I'll try to find a (web page perhaps) summary of what is and especially what is NOT available in free version of ESXi 3.5 Embedded U4.

  Like many people I guess, I spent hours looking for a way to perform certain operations on virtual disks, to see that these operations have been banned in the free version of ESXi 3.5 U4.  It is reasonable, after all, if someone gives you a horse, don't look in his mouth!  But while I'm happy to be an ESXi 'amateur' to a certain extent, I'm starting to feel like a pirate, and I'm doing this a bit more productive experience.  Here's what I found so far:

  -Some of the most useful features in VMware Tools (such as 'narrowing of the virtual disks') seem to have no useful effect in ESXi 3.5 U4 Embedded free version

  -L' operation-e vmkfstools.pl RCLI to rename the virtual disk (moving) and the i - operation to clone (copy / import / export) a virtual disk seem to be disabled (due to lack of return. RestrictedVersion.summary)

  -vim - cmd does not provide what be good beyond what you can do in VI Client

  In particular, can someone tell me if it is interesting to study the following, that is I'll be able to do anything discs at all useful to the virtual with them in ESXi 3.5 U4 Embedded free version:

  -VIMA

  -VI Toolkit (for Windows)

  Thanks for any help/pointers.

  Take a look at this article: http://vmetc.com/2009/03/31/esxi-u4-ends-free-version-read-and-write-access-from-the-rcli/, it should provide general information on the ESXi set and the problem of read-only.

  As ESXi never was intended to provide full access to the VI API, you get what you pay for and in this case, you use the free version so that you can accomplish all of these tasks with the VI Client, if you want more, you'll have to pay for it.

  So first off, vim-cmd is only available with the unsuppoted SSH console and you can probably do most of the basic tasks through some scripted as a shell script automation, also in the console Busybox unsupported, you have full access to the very familiar vmkfstools. Now, you mention vmkfstools.pl is the remote version of the tool, because it is not available by default with ESXi (as the console does not support is not supported by VMware). To manage and configure your remote host ESX and ESXi, vCLI was created that replicates most of the popular esxcfg-* commands that use the API of VI

  This VI API is not free, you have full read access but if you want to set up/perform all operations that aren't will not be played, then you will need to have a license appropriate and which is at the Foundation or higher. The API is exposed as WSDL/SOAP and there are various scripts/languages with links that hang in the VI API to provide a level of abstractions for programmers, administrators, some of these languages include Microsoft Powershell, Perl, c#, Java, etc.

  PowerCLI (officially VI Toolkit Windows) is such a link that uses the VI API, i.e. to use it you will need to have the appropriate permit to change the configuration of other you will have only read access, it's similar to Perl called vSphere SDK for Perl bindings. So, if you're going to explore other routes, you will always encounter the same fundamental question.

  Okay, vMA (officially VIMA) is just a VAPP VMware RHEL that provides administrators a way to centrally manage / to distance your servers ESX/ESXi and vCenter. It comes by default with the vSphere THAT SDK Perl and a few other utilities to help manage/configure your systems and once again they depend on the VI API which access set based on the licenses that you have on your hosts.

  So all the options are options, but you need to know if you are going to get a license, because without the most basic, you will not be able to use one of these toolkits. Note that the license NOT only does full read/write access to the API but other features depending on the license you buy.

  There are other tools that provides VMware which, for now, temporarily has functions of management for virtual machines ONLY, this may change in the near future but take a look at this thread for more information post: is not happy with lockdown 3.5u4 VI API/RCLI ESXi? Worry not, VMware VIX to the rescue... for now =)

  I hope that this clears up everything.

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• Reinstall the free version of VMware ESXi

  Hello world

  It probably is really stupid question, we have a spare Dell break and it has the free version of ESXi installed on it... can I re - install the free version and win another 60 days with her trail?

  Any information would be greatly appreciated...

  Hello world

  Finally managed to re - install the ESXi, down from GParted live disk and deleted volumes and reinstalled ESXi ESXi again... There must be an easier way to do this, can not believe the ESXi installer doesn't have an option to format hard disks and reinstall from scratch once again... surely, Miss me something here that is, once someone has installed ESXi There is no easy way for someone else to come along and reinstall the software to access all the features for 60 days...   Sounds crazy

• Errors, try to update the free version of ESXi 5.0 to 5.1

  1.) first of all, this is the command and the error I get:

  ~ # esxcli software installer--depot=/vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip vib
  [MetadataDownloadError]
  Could not download zip:/vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip?index.xml deposit, to jump

  (('zip:/vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip?index.xml', '', "erreur fichier index.xml dele de /vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-))

  (("201210001.zip: [Errno 2] no such file or directory: ' / vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip'"))
  URL = zip:/vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip?index.xml
  Please see the log file for more details.

  2.) on the environment and Notes that relate to this issue:
  The VMwareHost is installed on a Dell PowerEdge 1900 with 16 GB of RAM. Access to the host by using the vSphere Client. I used this environment successfully for six

  months. After the update of my workstation to Windows 8 I was more able to view my virtual machines. An error message was displayed on top of the VM console

  says: ' the VMRC console has disconnected... try to reconnect. "
  An online search indicated that I needed to update ESXi 5.0 to 5.1.

  I am running:
  Version 5.0.0 of ESXi build 623860
  vSphere Client Version 5.0.0 build 623373

  (3.) I found many resources who asked how to upgrade the free version of ESXi 5.0 to 5.1

  With a free license or an evaluation, it is not allowed to download "VMware ESXi - 5.1.0 - 799733 - depot.zip.
  However, by going to this site: http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/download.portal
  I can download build 838463 as described in the paragraph below of this page/site http://www.vladan.fr/esxi-free-how-to-upgrade-to-esxi-5-1/

  "UPDATE: If you want to upgrade to the latest ESXi 5.1 (build 838463), you should see this article: VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch version ESXi510-201210001 and get it."

  file ESXi510 - 201210001.zip, from the VMware download page. »

  This page/site explains how to apply the patch
  http://communities.VMware.com/people/vmroyale/blog/2011/09/15/updating-ESXi-5--single-use-esxcli-how-to

  4.) I connect to the host using PuTTY. Here's the session info:
  

  Using the user name "root".
  Keyboard-interactive authentication.
  Password:
  The time and date of this connection have been sent in the system logs.

  VMware offers support, powerful system administration tools.  Please
  See www.vmware.com/go/sysadmintools for more details.

  ESXi shell can be disabled by an administrative user. See the
  vSphere documentation security for more information.
  ~ #

  5.) I then download this file downloaded on the host at the following address
  /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip

  (6.) to check... I am able to list the contents of the repository with the following command:

  ~ esxcli # sources vib liste--depot=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip software | more
  Name Version Release Date acceptance level provider status
  -----------------------------  ----------------------------------  ------  ------------  ----------------  ------
  Update SCSI-bnx2i 1.9.1d.v50.1 - 5vmw.510.0.0.799733 VMware 2012-08-02 VMwareCertified
  updated sata-sata-promise 2: 12 - 3vmw.510.0.0.799733 VMware 2012-08-02 VMwareCertified
  updated net-sky2 1: 20 - 2vmw.510.0.0.799733 VMware 2012-08-02 VMwareCertified
  ESX-base 5.1.0 - 0.5.838463 VMware 2012-09-12 VMwareCertified update
  5.1.0 - 0.0.799733 of xserver-ESX VMware 2012 - 08 - 02 new VMwareCertified
  Misc-cnic-register 1, 1 - 1vmw.510.0.0.799733 VMware 2012-08-02 VMwareCertified update
  ...
  ...
  ...

  7.) when I try to run the install command I get the error stated at the top of this post. How do I update my

  If you don't have access to the repository offline package and the method of installation CD interactive is not what you want, you can take a look at for example http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/09/a-pretty-cool-method-of-upgrading-to.html (and the links in the blog post) to see how you can upgrade.

  André

• Error after upgrade to ESXi 5 Update 1 on free version

  At all a ghettoVCBg2 got another run properly after the upgrade to ESXi 5u1 via vMA 5 when it's the free version?

  I have a couple of free machine and they are the only ones having problems. My verson licensed production work very well.

  The error I get on free machines is as follows:

  Failed to get vim_service - the session object is not initialized or not connected to the line /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/VMware/VICommon.pm 1654
  Perl came out with active threads:
  1 running and spare
  0 finished and spare
  0 running and detached

  I find autour and trying different solutions to simular errors (for example, by adding the debugging of CARP), but nothing works.

  None of the 1 post update fixes fixed either.

  ghettoVCB works very well on the free servers however.

  So, I'm curious if anyone has seen this problem?

  I guess that the reason is that ghettoVCB2 was built for the paid editions that allow write API access.

  There was some editions which do not restrict this access, as you can see in "Support of ESX/ESXi Version table" at http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9843. The initial version of ESXi 5.0 is / was one of them, considering that the update 1 is even more restrictive.

  André

• (Beginner) Service of ESXi console... .free version?

  Hello

  Thank you for taking the time to read this...

  Is there an equivalent free in the Red Hat "Service Console"... perhaps as a version of Fedora/CentOS?

  And,

  If you guys have any advice - or - recommendations that isn't already in Raid 5 configuration documentation (ESXi hosting multiple operating systems), I would really appreciate it.

  (I was using VMware Server & prepairing to switch to ESXi)

  Thank you!

  You can use devices RCLI or vMA (aka VIMA) to administer your ESXi hosts.

  Not really... at least with the free version of ESXi, you will have only read only access that doesn't give you a lot. Take a look at this article: http://vmetc.com/2009/03/31/esxi-u4-ends-free-version-read-and-write-access-from-the-rcli/ and Yes, it extends to something newer than ESXi 3.5u2/u3

  If you license ESXi at least the license to the Foundation, then Yes, you can use vCLI, vMA, PowerCLI to manage your ESXi hosts, but if you use the free version you will no CLI access to manage. You can still use the vSphere Client GUI.

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• Why are there no remote access Messenger on the new version of live 2011?

  I've just updated to the new version windows live 2011.  There is no option for remote access to the chat now.i can't double click on contact and there is no possibility to ask for remote access... Why not? I have windows vista 32 bit service Pack 2... I have not had any problems with the old version.  how he do for this version?

  Use instead the teamviewer