Lab Manager acceleration kits / required licenses?

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• Example the SOAP API for Lab Manager in c# required

  Hi, I need to write a small program in c# that will deploy a short list of configurations of the library by name. I read in the guide to the SOAP API to update and tried all of the sample code, but no matter what I can not do the example of code to compile. I use Visual Studio 2008 and you added the WSDL reference correctly. The code contains only errors. He is Director of the laboratory 3.0.2 as well. Just one example showing me how to deploy 2 configurations by name would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance.

  Here is a very simple example, tested on LM 3.0.2 which gets a configuration by name and deploy it.

• Requirements of VMWare Lab Manager

  Hello!

  I'm trying to put together a proof of concept for my business help to reach an agreement to buy and implement of Lab Manager, but am having a hard time getting real answers on a licence!  Maybe I'm reading just the documents wrong or something, but here are my questions:

  (1) VMWare Lab Manager does support ESXi?  If so, why do I use instead of ESXi ESX when all management is made by the end before (Lab Manager or vCenter Server)?  ... I have no need of HA or VMotion.

  (2) do I need for 3 products license?  For example, Lab Manager, vCenter Server, and ESX server?

  I read in a PDF document that vCenter Server is not a must but could take no ESXi, but a person in chat support told me that Lab Manager backed ESXi but necessary vCenter Server.  I'm a bit confused.

  What is the deployment scenario recommended for an environment with 1 physical host (to start) but plans to expand to 3-5 in the year?

  Thanks for your help!  Sorry to ask what I am sure is answered somewhere on the website, I just couldn't find where and it seems that the name of the product seems to be different depending on what you're looking at (ESX Server Infrastructure =?)

  -Jesse Reinhart

  Hi Jesse

  (1) lab Manager does not support ESXi.

  (2) Yes Lab Manager 3.0.2 requires the current version VC, it does not work on stand-alone host. Director of the laboratory 2.5.x support stand-alone host.

  You need a configuration that Lab Manager-->--> ESX VC even for single host currently.

  Hope that helps

  John Shao

• Lab Manager 4 will not release the license after the removal of host.

  Hey there,

  I am running Lab Manager 4 in my infrastructure.  I recently added a lot of CPU 2 and licensed.  Shortly after, I removed the host of Lab Manager, but he has not published the 2CPUs of licensing - which means that I am able to use my license 2CPU part to add new hosts.

  No idea how I can get the license for free?

  Thank you!

  You must "unprepare" this ESX host in the laboratory Manager.

  The 'prepare' function consumes your license, and similarly "unprepare" frees.

  This ESX host appears in the overall organization > resources > Hosts?

  Best regards

  Jon Hemming

• Lab Manager licensing during the merger of vSphere environments

  Is there a small vSphere environment that is available for Lab Manager and a great environment vSphere and both are now completely separated (different vcenter servers, groups separated from ESX, etc.), and they are merged into one, what happens to the Lab Manager licenses?  Should be updated to take account of the increase in the number of ESX host in the new environment?  Environments can be merged without buying additional licenses?  If so, would be half the environment allowed for lab manager and others are not allowed?  How would the lab manager-under license, and lab-manager-without sections allowed environmental stands / separated?

  Thanks for your comments

  "Prepared" you went in in the section resources, hosts tab and see that the host is ready (green check mark), this means that there has been a 'prepare' to the host.  Prepare installs the agent LM, then she will deduct your license (settings > license).

  Kind regards

  Jon Hemming, b.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009
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• Requirements of Lab Manager

  We are looking at a minimum Lab Manager configuration for a client. We will be hosting, installation and management of the environment. We'd start to a minimum and to extend the environment if it earns interest.

  1. License: I understand that we will need at least a license VSphere 4.0 Standard as well as a license Lab Manager correct? Anything else?

  2. Infrastructure: We would like to have a single host VSphere and run all on local disk to start. Is this a supported configuration?

  3. Expansion: It will be relatively simple to add a 2nd VSphere host and go to the shared storage later? Just want to check it is a way to get there without a complete reconstruction.

  4. Can I isolate the distinct customer environments and grant permissions accordingly?

  I also try to estimate how much it will take to actively manage this once we have in place. My hypothesis Lab Manager is designed so that the end user can build their own test environments with little outside assistance.

  1 fix

  2. If by "vsphere host" you mean ESX host, Yes.

  For the record, I generally run in problems of considerable achievements on local disk, especially if this local drive is SATA.  You can run vms win2k3 minimally two (one for vsphere, a laboratory Manager) and then all SMV lm on top of that.

  3. Yes.  It is relatively easy to get the hosts side (still once I presume you mean esx host) and shared storage.  A tool, ssmove, is supplied with the laboratory Director to make migrating

  4. Yes.

• Lab Manager v3 license question

  Hello everyone, happy Tuesday...

  I recently started working at an existing installation Lab Manager v3 licenses, but no operational deployment.

  Try an install of Lab Manager against a cluster of two dual-CPU servers VI3, I immediately received an error all excess licenses. I checked the license information, and there are two assignments of uniprocessor merged for the license. My question is - the number of processors in the license applies to the host Win2K3/8 Server Lab Manager is running on, or for ESX servers, it runs against?

  Thanks in advance, stay virtualized.

  the number of sockets on the ESX servers you try to integrate in the laboratory Manager

  concerning

  Jose Ruelas B

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• Question about VMware Foundation Acceleration Kit

  Sorry if this is a stupid question, I don't get frequent on licenses for the stuff. Ive looked at the PDF licenses and below shows the paragraph that confuses me a little. The Foundation acceleration Kit only allows you to run ESXi?

  Ive got 2 sites that I need installation, one with 1 x VC server. 2 x with 2 x cpus esx hosts each and another site running a different copy of VC, 1 host ESX x with 2 x CPus.

  What would be the best option?

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  VMware Infrastructure 3 Foundation acceleration Kit

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  includes three licenses of VMware Infrastructure 3 Foundation.

  It's VMware ESXi, VMware Consolidated Backup,

  VMware Update Manager VMware Virtual SMP, VMware

  VMware VMFS and VirtualCenter agent. They also include

  Server VMware VirtualCenter Foundation, which provides

  VMware Guided Consolidation and the ability to manage up to

  three hosts Server VMware Infrastructure 3.

  Non-it allows you to run ESX or ESXi - the only thing you need is another license server VC since the acceleration kit only comes with one license of VM - Foundation

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• Can the License Manager load the computer license first, instead of the license based on users?

  We have several machines in the lab with licenses computerized on them and a number of technicians who have licenses based on users. When he signed from time to time as themselves, instead of the generic service account, a technician of the License Manager fits on the machine their user account. Not a problem until they're trying to connect to their own PC again LabVIEW and they get the trial of 14 days notice period.

  Is there a way the License Manager looking for the license to the computer first instead of the user license?

  Thanks for any help.

  Joe

  Hey Joe,

  In the license file on the license server, you may be able to manually change the tag "sort" in the file to change the order in which VLM withdraws licenses. Licenses are checked in descending (2, then 3, then 4, etc.). As a general rule, your license file is set up in a default order, but in special cases like this, it may be advantageous to change the order. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. open the license file with a text editor (such as Notepad)

  2. search for the tag "flows out". For example, the entry "VLM_Core" will sort tag value will appear as "sort = first". Do not change this value. VLM_Core must always be the first.

  3. change the value of sorting tag for the license to the computer named to a value less than the value of sorting tag for the named user license. (for example 'sort = 2"for named computer and 'sort = 3" to the named user).

  4 save the file and reinstall the license.

  Let me know if you have any questions!

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• Configuration Lab Manager - error: not supported operating system

  I try to install vCenter Lab Manager 4.0.4.1406 but I get error: unsupported on OS when I run the Setup file.

  It is Windows Server 2008 R2 x 64 on an ESXi 5.0 machine.

  IIS and the .net Framework 4.0 is installed.

  Uninstalled AD.

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  I don "t think that Windows 2008 R2 is supported for Lab Manager server, only Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 are mentioned in the Manual of Installation.

  For guests, it has made experimental support for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.

• vCenter 4.1 update level & Lab Manager

  Hello

  I upgraded to vcenter 4.1 and have begun upgrading our 4.1 esx host.  We have a Lab Manager cluster and I got to spend 2 to 3 hosts for ESX4.1... Currently, all Lab manager VMs are running on the ESX host 4.0 remaining in the cluster of Lab Manager.  I'm unable to migrate virtual machines to host 4.0 to ESX 4.1 two other guests offshore in this cluster to improve this host to esx 4.1.  When I select a VM to migrate, I get the following after error message select a host ESX4.1:

  "A general system error.  The virtual machine requires labmanagerhostserver/system.service.vmware.vsla labmanagerhostserver service, which is not available on this host "."

  Before the upgrade to vcenter 4.1, Director of the laboratory has been upgraded to 4.0.2

  Any hellp to resolve the above error is much appreciated.

  Sorry to hear that.

  I myself have strange problems with 4.1.

  I have stopped using 4.1 at the moment and re - install 4.0 on all new blades instead.

• VMware vSphere Advanced Acceleration Kit

  How does VMware vSphere Acceleration Kit advanced work? How many guest support? I have two servers at once with 2 quad core processors. I would like to implement the two servers with a tolerance for vcenter and fault, then add a third server that is identical. This package will work for me?

  We currently have kits essentials in place on two other servers. The essential kit clearly states its for 3 guests (max 2 CPUs per host) and 6 cores per processor

  This package should work just fine, but we want tolerance fault for our new configuration. That's why I'm leaning towards VMware vSphere acceleration Kit Advanced.

  Thank you

  Joe

  As you have already mentioned, the Kits Essentials are limited to 3 guests. That's all.

  Acceleration Kits are reduced start-up kits which contain regular licenses. You can only buy 1 of these kits per location. The Advanced acceleration Kit includes vSphere Advanced 6 processors and vCenter Server Foundation. You can use the licenses processor you want, for example for the guests of CPU of 3 x 2 or 1 x 2 CPU + 1 x 4 CPU... If you need more guests and 3 then you can upgrade the License Server Foundation of vCenter to vCenter Server Standard and purchase additional processor licenses. See http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/buyvsphere-acceleration-kits.html

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  André

• Relationship of Lab Manager and vSphere

  My shop starts to think about his Lab Manager architecture design, and we have some questions about the relationship between vSphere and Lab Manager.

  (1) can Lab Manager leverage of resources defined outside its host vSphere environment?

  (2) must LM be hosted in a specific vSphere environment to effectively exploit the scene-to-production in this environment vSphere features?  In other words, what is the impact to the staging functionality when you move a virtual machine from a workspace of LM to a VSphere environment that does not host the environment of LM?

  The reason we ask is because we already have production environment vSphere, and we plan to install vCenter Lab Manager within this environment or install LM in a separate vSphere environment.

  Thank you.

  Tim

  (1) the laboratory director can leverage resources defined outside its host vSphere environment?

  All used 'resources' must be inside a vCenter server, and all objects must be contained within a single "Data center" object in the hierarchy.

  > LM (2) done must be hosted in a specific vSphere environment to effectively exploit the scene-to-production in this environment vSphere features? In other words, what is the impact to the staging functionality when you move a virtual machine from a workspace of LM to a VSphere environment that does not host the environment of LM?

  If the vCenter for production is not the same as Lab Manager, you must export the Configuration of LM in an SMB share (requires a classic ESX host in the middle of LM), and then import it to the appropriate location.

  I did not notice problems with Lab Manager VMs-by-side with use of regular production.  Just separate the ESX hosts in a dedicated Cluster or a Pool of resources.

  Kind regards

  Jon Hemming, b.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009
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• Lab Manager dependencies on vCenter and terminology

  I just Lab Manager, of course with ESX and vCenter.  I know very little about Virtualization, as this issue will prove.  What are the activities of configuration required on vCenter for Lab Manager able to build models, installation configurations and share library configurations?

  Also, I'm trying to get my head around the difference between the data store, data center and media store.  My current knowledge are:

  A data store has a one-way relationship to one or more hosts.  If storage is on a specific host (physical hard disk for example) then the data store has a relationship one of exlclusively with a single host.  Any file a host or a virtual machine can read/write can be read/written on this data store.

  A data center is a logical collection (non-brique and mortar) hosts, data warehouses and virtual machines.  A data center can aggregate various data stores in a single logical storage available to all virtual machines area?  Or another flavor of physical storage can same issue on a Server Windows 2008 physical logically be conifgured such as NFS, and can share NFS join a data center?

  A media store is a special part of a data store managed by the Manager of laboratory exclusively for the storage of files ISO for the construction of models in the laboratory Manager.  Is a media store part of a data store or part of a data center?

  Is a model of vCenter the same model Lab Manager?

  Any clarification on these questions would be more useful.

  Kind regards

  Rick

  Good questions! Welcome to the Forums as well!

  Your description data store is pretty right on. With the exception of the now for the storage of the local host, new technologies progressed to virtualize in the shared storage by the use of devices to Vritual Server.  Companies like HP lefthand and Openfiler to name a few.

  With regard to the issues of data center

  > A datacenter can aggregate various data warehouses into a single logical storage available to all virtual machines area?

  No, he learn better to keep data warehouses between HA/DRS separate clusters.  Now between the host in a cluster you "will share stroage" for the use of the DRS, HA or Storage vMotion.

  > can physical storage on a Server Windows 2008 physical logically be conifgured such as NFS, and can share NFS join a data center?

  Yes you can - use Openfiler VSA to connect the two iSCSI LUNS and NFS for ESX. As long as the ESX host can access the virtual machine through the network.

  For your other questions have a good read on a couple of things well:

  http://bsmith9999.blogspot.com/2010/02/Lab-Manager-40-Setup-and-best-practices.html

  This webcast was just as informative as well:

  http://www.VMware.com/a/webcasts/details/284

  See you soon,.

  Chad King

  VCP-410. Server +.

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