ESXi5 hosts with free licenses to connect to vCenter?

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• vMotion with free license

  Hello

  I use VmWare Esxi 4.1 with free license, is it possible to buy just the functionality of vMotion for the free license.

  Take a look at http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf to see what features are available with the different licenses. vMotion and other features are already included in the "vSphere Essentials Plus" edition. "VSphere Essentials Plus" package includes vCenter Server for Essentials, as well as CPU licenses for 3 guests two-processor up to 6 cores per processor.

  André

• License 3.5 hosts with Vsphere licenses

  Until vSphere has passed the etc test, and we know its compatible with all of our infrastructure, we cannot upgrade in the production environment. At the same time the production environment need to grow - new hosts added etc. If I understand correctly, it is now only possible to buy vSphere licenses. These licenses are compatible with the infrastructure 3.5 and can they be used until we update. Can licenses be temporarily downgraded?

  Yes, you can downgrde licenses vSphere -'s done it on the Licensing Portal and when you're ready return you vSphere licenses licenses.

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• ESXi host running 6 VCSA disconnected from the vCenter

  Hi guys,.

  I have a weird problem with my vCenter build 6. Single cluster of ESXi hosts. Running VCSA 6.0 and 6.0 ESXI. Making a storage of the vCenter vMotion initially got stuck at 77% and the ESXi host running the disconnected from vCenter vCenter. But I can connect directly to the ESXi host with vsphere client and see the vCenter VM works perfectly well. If I try to manually connect host ESXi and vCenter, I get the error "Failed to contact the host specified") both are in the same subnet and VLAN. I can migrate to other virtual machines without problem. I even restarted the host and yet I am not able to connect to vCenter. The host connects to vCenter if I reboot vCenter, but after a few minutes, disconnects again (even if no task does run on this topic.) I have no HA or DRS enabled at this point that I build this new environment and only presented a single LUN as a store of test data to the cluster.

  Any ideas?

  OK, I think I fixed that or have at least a work around. So the underlying question was hiding ID mode/CPU EVC. I'm under the cluster to a level of EVC to reduce until I have migrate workloads from old environment and I think that this created a problem for the unit vCenter. To resolve this problem, I turned off the unit, directly connected to the ESXi host that had the camera running, edited the virtual machine and reset the masking of CPUID. Also, I've hidden the flag NX/XD of the guest. It's temporary (I hope) as once I increase the EVC to the Haswell, I will expose the NX/XD comments and test. For the moment, it is of the workaround I did. It may be of some use to someone.

• Can we change ESXi host license license free licensed?

  We currently have two additional CPU of ESX license so that we can assign a new install ESXi host that is not connected to FC SAN.

  However, we would like to know because of the need, can change us the license assigned to the ESXi host under a free license, so that we can use it on another ESX or ESXi host?

  Thank you

  Yes, you can change any time, licenses you have is only the functionality.

  If you run virtual Center and you have a rich license feature and decided to change for free, save a single license, you could end up losing the functionality and the ability to power on if some vm of the vcpu exceed your new license mode.

  But tehcnically licenses you can change anytime, you could even remove a license and return to eval for 60 days.

• After repaired Windows XP Prof on my HP computer with OEM license while trying to connect to his request activate windows with option or NOT, although I have to say yes or no its loging off drving not me to the main Windows screen

  After repaired Windows XP Prof on my HP computer with OEM license while trying to connect to his request activate windows with option or NOT, although I have to say yes or no its loging off drving not me to the main Windows screen... How do I activate windows or how can I connect windows. Once I login I can activate as I have OEM license... Pls advice

  Activation of Microsoft Hotline - (888) 571-2048 MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• I have a free account I need to cancel so that my company administrator can provide me with a license for the full version - full version of the trial would be linked to my email address.  How can I get this done?

  I have a free account I need to cancel so that my company administrator can provide me with a license for the full version - full version of the trial would be linked to my email address.  How can I get this done?

  Hello Andrew,.

  Even if we cancel your free account, your company admin account will still not be able to add you as a user. We can go directly to your free account of the company's main account and for that, can you inbox me email address registered to your and your admin? Please don't share it on the public forum.

  Kind regards

  -Usman

• Allocation of vSphere with a host operations management licenses

  Hi all

  How in the world I assign VMware vSphere with standard 5.5 license management operations to a host? The implementation has been green field, so we bought the acceleration for vCenter server kit that comes with 6 licenses vSphere with the direction of the operation. I've got Ops Manager works well and himself is allowed and can see all hosts. We also bought 12 additional licenses for 18 in total, and I can see the other 12 and assign them to hosts, but can not see the original 6. I never could.

  

  Any help appreciated.

  André

  Finally, I called support license and solved it. I had to downgrade 6 Operations Manager vCenter licenses in order to see them. My hosts are all on ESX 5.1. The downgrade is made of my.vmware.com--> license keys--> I want to: Downgrade from licenses. He worked as expected after that.

• I created a site of Muse for a customer who wishes to host with Business Catalyst. How to publish the site with their account instead of using one of my free sites?

  I created a site of Muse for a customer who wishes to host with Business Catalyst. How to publish the site with their account instead of using one of my free sites? This is so I can keep my ones that are free for personal projects but also so they can pay for their own accommodation. I'm happy to put everything to them but don't know what to do.

  Hello

  You can use their IDs of BC and use them, which to publish the site will be under their account.

  Please change the login of BC's Edit > preferences > Publish > switch accounts, for Mac, there Adobe Muse > preferences

  Thank you

  Sanjit

• Behavior of ESX/ESXi with standard or free license on HW with more than 6 core

  I am wonderig what happens if I run an ESX license on processor with the core of more than 6.

  For example after the Installation of ESX on an OCTO-Core processor HW, what happens after insert a license that is not advanced or Enterpise Plus key.

  I run VM using only 6 of the 8 main? or the system prevents me to start a virtual machine due to the limitation of the basis of my license?

  The limitation of the base would be the license include all of the physical cores. It is different from the standard or free license which gives you 4 SMP (max 4 vCPU simultaneously).

  If you use advance or company, then the licence would be only to see max 6 cores processors and ignore the other 2 hearts. You can still use your virtual machine as usual. =)

  iDLE-jAM | SC 2, SC 3 & VCP 4

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• VMs migration from one to another on ESXi 5.1 data store (free license)

  I'm under ESXi in my lab (for the Cisco voice servers and a few Windows virtual machines). Virtual machines are on a datastore iSCSI hosted by a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro Business. Due to major problems with iSCSI on the ReadyNAS platform and the inability of Netgear to resolve problems (blocking NAS requiring a hard reset), I decided to buy a QNAP TS - 569 L and use it to host my ESXi data store. Now, I'm migrating my VMs from the iSCSI data store hosted on the ReadyNAS to the iSCSI data store hosted by QNAP.

  My VMs are supplied thin, and I want to preserve thin provisioning after migration. The data store Navigator ESXi can move (or copy) machines virtual data to another store, but thin-set in service virtual machines become thick-set service once they have been moved (or copied). Somebody advised Veeam to that end, I've installed and configured. Unfortunately, Veeam-error with the message that the current license does not have the migration of virtual machines from a data store to another. Just today, I learned that he must have at least the ESXi Essentials ($500) license to allow this type of migration of Veeam.

  I also tried OVFTool (the MMware command line utility), using the following syntax:

  . / ovftool - ds QNAP-iSCSI - dm = vi thin: / / vi [email protected]/CUCM-Pub: / / [email protected]

  where:

  QNAP-iSCSI is the name of the data store on the QNAP

  192.168.200.10 is the IP address of my box of ESXi that is connected to two data stores iSCSI (the one organized by the ReadyNAS and the other by the QNAP).

  CUCM-Pub is the name of the virtual machine on the ReadyNAS iSCSI data store I'm migrating to the QNAP iSCSI data store.

  However, I get the following error message:

  Error: Unexpected Option: vi: / / [email protected]/CUCM-Pub

  This is probably due to the same issue - free ESXi license does not allow this type of VM migration. So, what are my options with free ESXi license? I'm not willing to pay $500 for the license of the essential at this stage.

  Thank you!

  A few options, I can think of are:

  • export to the FVO and re - import
  • use VM explore Trilead and backup/restore virtual machines
  • Use the vmkfstools command to copy the virtual disks

  André

• How to get the free license for VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5?

  Please show me the link where I can get the free license for VMware vSphere key 5?

  Connect the link with the register username and password below.

  https://www.VMware.com/tryvmware/index.php?p=free-esxi5&LP=default

  Click on licenses and download tab... you will see the license key.

• Update / fixes ESXi single host with VCSA running on it.

  We have just updated since the free version of ESXi 5 by ordering the Kit of Essentials. In the process, of course, we were able to deploy vCenter Update Manager (which has been the main motivation, like patching manually the free version seemed to be quite a pain). We have a Windows host that has installed the Update Manager, and we have a VCSA running on the single instance of ESXi, we deployed to date. We were able to install the plugin on the viClient and scan the ESXi host for patches with success (a need a good number). But, we're stuck trying to install the patches... us when trying to restore the host, we get: "the operation is not supported on the selected inventory items. Check events for the objects selected for the operation.

  The host says:

  The 10.0.1.80 host has a virtual VMware vCenter machine

  Device server with VMware vSphere update

  Manager or VMware vCenter Server installed. The

  Virtual MACHINE needs to be moved to another host for the

  consolidation to proceed.

  error

  28/08/2014-16:21:32

  Clean up the entity

  10.0.1.80

  root

  Looking at this logic, for the host switch to maintenance mode, the VCSA should have been suspended (apparently, actually moved), which would avoid in turn patches / updates to the deployment. Am I correct in thinking, that we have a second host and networked storage? Made a Kit Essentials / license provide for the possibility of vMotion from one host to another? It wasn't really clear... Yes, the web site says "vMotion" is included in most Essentials, but find it me hard to imagine any point to a facility in ESXi stream without the ability to vMotion between one system and another guest...

  Welcome to the community,

  And since you have only an ESXi host and your vCSA is running on this host, you cannot patch this host with Update Manager for reason that already know you: the host should be the maintenance mode.

  Add about another host, with Kit Essentials without vMotion functionality, you can try using a data store of shared storage between two hosts, stop the vCSA on first host and switch the vCSA on the second host... and finally the first host patch.

• Cannot start VM with new license

  Hi all

  I wonder if someone can help me... I've built several virtual machines on ESXi host using vSphere license eval which recently expired.

  Decided that the cheapest way to start and stop VMs would be to purchase a license of workstation so I bought last night.

  For the moment I entered the license key and activation of license online but still can't start one of my old VMs and get error - license key has expired.

  What is this expected behavior - cannot start the VM on the remote host if they were built using eval license?

  You say I should not have bought the VM Workstation license and could use vSphere Client somehow to start my VMs?

  Yes, is not the Client, you need vSphere licenses, the ESXi host itself, is why you cannot start the virtual computer after the expiry of the period of eval, no matter if you connect to the host via the vSphere Client or VMware Workstation.

  If your ESXi host (assuming that you use version 5) has no more than 32 GB of physical memory, you can use the free license of the hypervisor.

  André

• ESXi 5 free license

  Hi all.

  I have five ESXi hosts. One of them have an expired license for 90 days. I have found that the trial licenses. I need a license without expire date.
  How can I get a free license key to die for a trial (keyless) license?
  (I don't need the functionality of a license of payment)

  Hi Welcome to the communities,

  You can register here to get the free license: http://www.vmware.com/go/get-free-esxi/

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  Note: Discussion moved with success of VMware ESXi 5 on VMware vSphere Hypervisor