Licensing vCenter and vSphere/installation

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• How we installed vCenter and vSphere?

  How we installed vCenter and vSphere?

  I was told that I can simply update my esx 3.5 to 4 via vCenter server.

  So all I have to do is to install vCenter.  I went to the vmware website and downloaded Vcenter - 2.5.0 - U4 - English.zip

  I installed in and Vic my version 2.5.0 build 147633

  It doesn't mention anything about vCenter...

  How I now update my esx host 4.  When I do a scan now I don't get the option to update esx 4.

  Is there something simple I've missed?

  Have you seen the video upgrade?

  http://www.VMware.com/products/vSphere/upgrade-Center/

  Don't forget vSphere 4 is for 64-bit processors. I do not know what material your help so I just throw.

• vCenter and vsphere client

  Hello

  -with a free hypervisor such as VMware vSphere hypervisor, is an agenda we can pour so vcenter United Nations donor on wants to benefit from multitudes of advanced functionality of VMware? Alternatively the Vcenter just goes along with the paid hypervisor?

  -that settles on another machine I always find the Vsphere client (no), in order to remote server access is there is other tasks pour client, and is what we can create our flat virtual form without client to use it?

  I am a beginner in the field of virtualization, and I am very intressée by this technology, is rescue thanks

  Kind regards

  Hello and welcome to the forum of the community of VMware ESXi 5.

  Please note that the 'official' language to the English forums.

  1. You want to know if it is possible to use vSphere 5 free on the host computers and manage this host using vCenter (charges apply).
     I'm currently not sure and assume that it is not covered in the license agreement for the free vSphere 5.
  2. You also wanted to know if it is possible to drive your without client vSphere vSphere hosts.
     Well, on vSphere 5 free, does not allow vMA for "write" for guests. So use withouth of some hacks and cheats sooner or later, you will need to the vSphere Client to manage the guests on your host computer.
     If you want to avoid the vSphere on your desktop/laptop client, you could install vSphere client on one of your guests on the vSphere host.

• Tips for starting the deployment vCenter and vSphere

  Well, so here's my question, and maybe it's a long one.

  I intend to deploy vSphere/vCenter deployment soon, and I am currently considering a network isolated for management stuff.  My understanding is that to get there, you have ESXi hosts to configure a NETWORK card that is connected to a remote switch and then assign IPs on the same subnet for each machine.  So that's what I would do.  NICs will be connected to a separate switch for the vMotion and the virtual machines on the host computers.

  This leaves me in a quandry minor, however.  I would like to get vCenter configuration on a virtual computer.  And vCenter must be able to communicate with the domain for the domain controllers, right?  What I would do is vCenter configuration, configuration of the distributed vSwitches and hang them up to the network adapters that are connected to the internal network (and therefore the domain controllers) and make sure that everything works correctly.  Once it's over, I want to put in place a couple of VMs who will take over the functions of the DCs and from there, the majority of the servers on the network of virtualization.  Yahoo!

  So, here's the problem, I can say.  If I want the management network server ESXi to be isolated with their own IP addresses, how is the vCenter VM supposed to communicate with the inside network where are domain controllers, because I won't have any installation of vSwitches to other network adapters, because I need to vCenter to create these vSwitches, etc..  Chicken and eggs?  I'm sure that someone has addressed and solved this problem before.  Help?

  Yes, it is what we have done to the SC for the VI Center and each host.  We use a non routable subnet for our network of Vmotion.

  Sorry I havn't been referred in the community forum, because I answered.

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• VCenter and VMWare essential Kits

  Hello

  I have 3 ESXI 5.5 servers in place and another 9 servers ESXI 5.5 in a second location. All servers have two processors and 128 GB or less RAM.

  Can I buy 4 essential Kits of VMWare and install four separate vcenter instances? Am I allowed to use multiple VMware Essentials Kits in one place?

  Is it possible to install one instance of VCenter for all ESXI 5.5 servers 12 with these licenses or do I need to buy a different set of licenses?

  Thank you

  Can I buy 4 essential Kits of VMWare and install four separate vcenter instances? Am I allowed to use multiple VMware Essentials Kits in one place?

  Unless I'm missing something, you can have how many Kits Essentials desired by site/branch, the limitation is that each vCenter Essentials kit can manage only the 03 (three) hosts.

  Is it possible to install one instance of VCenter for all ESXI 5.5 servers 12 with these licenses or do I need to buy a different set of licenses?

  No, each Kit Essentials can manage only the 03 (three) VMware ESXi ESX. To manage hosts more 03, you will need the Standard vCenter and vSphere ESXi Standard, Enterprise or Enterprise Plus.

  Anyway, there are still other options if you don't want to license more advanced, like Standard vCenter and vSphere, ESXi Standard/Enterprise, see: how your vSphere VMware 5.5 retail and management offices (ROBO) - VMware-Blog of SMB - VMware license items

• vCenter and the connection to the server role

  I'm about to move from vCenter and vSphere to 5.5 and I was wondering what will be the impact on our view pools (5.2) in the process. It will affect only composer as supply operations, power on/off, etc.? Or she would also affect current sessions and new authentication?

  Current sessions should not be affected nor should new sessions, as long as you have machines available online

• Do we need to buy separate licenses for ESXi and VCenter and 5

  Hello

  I have confusion about the licensing model, I have 2 servers (2 socket) physical with 4 licenses of VMWARE VSPHERE 5 STANDARD 1 PROCESSOR, you can clear my doubts if I need to buy a separate license for VCenter Server and if so, which is the right one?

  Thank you

  Yes, vCenter Server needs to be licensed separately (VMware also offers packaged essentials and acceleration kits). Since you already have the CPU licenses, you can either watch the "vCenter Server Foundation" license that allows to manage up to 3 guests or 'vCenter Server Standard' license without this limitation.

  André

• Differences - license in VC 2.5 and vsphere

  Hi friends,

  Please help to understand the differences between licensing in VC 2.5 and vSphere

  -VC 2.5 needs a license server, where as there are keys on vSphere licenses in vSphere

  Are all the other differences there? Help, please

  With the change of license keys to license server, you are now able to easily run different editions of ESX (i) in your data center. Licenses can be assigned to each host separately.

  It is also no longer necessary for licenses based on the temporary host if your server licenses (Virtual Center) has declined and was not available for 14 days (period of grace).

  André

• Licensing vCenter ROBO issues

  Hello

  I just buy a ROBO (25 VM) license key and I wanted to add to my existing vCenter server.

  But whenever I added to vCenter I get this error

  

  Does anyone has worked with before ROBO licenses and could you tell me what is the problem? or contact VMware Support?

  Which vCenter version you're running and which version license did you buy?

  If you're running 5.5 and vSphere bought 6 licenses, you will need to downgrade the license to 5.5.

• SRM with vSphere Enterprise and vSphere Advanced

  Hello

  I saw the FAQ license RS saying that SRM requires no vSphere all be of the same edition and features will be affected by which edition is used.

  Which raises a number of questions in my mind.  For example if my environment is as such:

  • Production site with multiple ESX using Enterprise Plus with Nexus 1000V
  • Recovery site with several ESX using Advanced edition
  • Enough to set up for two sites license SRM and vCenter

  I guess that network should not much question, as I can manually map the port network group on the recovery plan.

  So my questions:

  1. Can I configure manually this ESX made uses SRM for commissioning virtual machines running the recovery plan?
     • I don't have a DRS on the DR site to distribute virtual machines and use all the resources.
  2. What happens when SRM tries to start a virtual machine with more than 4vCPU in the DR site?
     • Advance Edition limited my VMs to 4vCPU

  See you soon,.
  Isabelle

  Your correct indeed neglected the advanced part, DRS is not supported. But another question for you: do you only use the equipment have the Dr site for DR purposes or you also make use of the material for other purposes as for example the test? Is it not that you can always create a business case to buy a license of the company and use the site of recovery for test purposes. In case a disaster occurs and a failover is invoked, you can add stimulus to stop your test virtual machines on the recovering site, before the SRM protected VM. This way make you full use of all the material on the protégé and the recovering site.

  Looking at your question again, it makes me think. If you create a cluster on the recovering site and map this cluster cluster on the protected site. All virtual machines that are protected will be started on the cluster during failover. OK you won't have DRS so resources are not distributed on the hosts, but they run and computers vMotion virtual host to another, you can manually.

  Point which is that you want to map individual VMS to ESX host, making your your design SRM very complex and difficult to maintain. Rather go for mapping clusters and take account of the fact that you have to manually virtual computers vMotion between host computers to create a balanced distribution of resources (or buy some DRS). It makes your life a lot easier.

• Storage vmotion and vsphere 4.1 eval

  Hello

  I use vsphere 4.1 (eval version). I have two hosts with shared storage.  I have installed vcenter and the two added hosts.

  When I try to storage vmotion, a virtual machine, I find that the "Change host and data store" option is grayed out.

  Under the option greyed out is the line "the VM must be power off to change the virtual host machine and data store"

  When I look at 'Features licensed' I see "Storage vMotion" is available.

  Any ideas why I can't storage vmotion?

  Thank you very much

  p.s Someone can tell me are the different versions of vsphere Essentials that is, Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise more etc, in fact different pieces of software or the other a difference of license?

  What you have selected is not a Storage vMotion.  If you want to change the data store, you cannot change the host at the same time.  If you change hostm you cannot change the data store at the same time.

  Choose one or the other.

  -Matt

  VCP, VCDX #52, Unix Geek, Nerd of storage

• vCentre with ESX 3.5 and vSphere 4U1 lic.

  Hello

  I would like some advice on vCentre4 with ESX3.5 and vSphere 4U1. We currently have 4 ESX3.5 Ent. servers (16CPU lic.) and v2.5U1 vCentre UAT environment, we are trying to replace the migration to vSphere 4U1.

  Unfortunately last weekend our vCentre 2.5U1 server crashed without possible repair, and since we are in the process of upgrading would rebuild Win2k8 and SQL2k5 servr to vCentre 4U1 th at the same time, we are going to change servers ESX3.5 to ESXi 4 (free version) and install 4U1 vSphere 4 new production servers.

  Our plan is to first upgrade to vSphere 4U1 2 servers, then followed by the other 2 servers a few months later. There are a few things that I need help to clarify:

  1. after reinstallation of vCentre4 licensing to vCentre 4 supports a mixture of ESX3.5 Ent and vSphere.

  2. If I detach my the vCentre ESX3.5 servers and also to remove the lic. of the ESX 3.5 How many days the ESX can run before the ICA. expires - is it being treated as a version of evaluation and the ICA. lasts for 60 days.

  3 or if not can I keep my ESX3.5 connected with the vCentre but remove the lic. for the 2 vCentre ESX and how the days can work before the ICA. expires and that our servers cannot connect to the vCentre.

  4. I've heard - we have not installed vCentre4 but the software/module license on vCentre4 (vSphere) is different from what the 2.5 vCentre (ESX3.5) how can keep my lic. on the operation of ESX can I just install the vCentre 2.5 lic. more module on the server of vCentre for lic. vSphere and ESX3.5

  Thank you very much...

  See you soon...

  Thanks for the tips up to what it means if I set up my server with 2 vCentre * vSphere 4U1 server and 2 * ESX3.5 Server;

  -the vCentre will allow the vSphere 4U1with lic. key

  I'm not sure that understand the issues above.  You need vCenter4 to manage the host ESX (i).  vCenter4 can manage VI3 hosts, but vCenter2.5 can't handle ESX(I) 4 guests.

  -J' I need to install the 2.5U1 software/module license vCentre 2 * ESX3.5

  You can install stand-alone if you wish. http://downloads.VMware.com/d/details/esx_35_licenseserver_dt/dGViZGVoKmIqZA==

  in order to ensure environments run correctly (without expiring) and they can both connect to vCentre Server?

  No, a crowd can be handled by one instance of vCenter.

• Suite of spring and vSphere Client Web plugins

  Hi, I'm new to this environment.  I'm developing VMware vSphere Client Web plugins.  Installing vSphere Web Client plugins, it is stated that favorite tools include Suite of spring, which is a derivative of the eclipse.  It is an optional component to use the tool, FlashBuilder.  Eventually, the VMware documentation states that you can use Eclipse instead of the spring tool Suite, but different configuration is necessary.

  I write here (instead of VMware/AST) for the following reasons.  I am able to set up the environment without the tool, FlashBuilder.  I am able to develop plugins Web Client without the tool, FlashBuilder.  However, I believe that the FlashBuilder tool will facilitate the development.  When I try to get the FlashBuilder to load, I get no longer things to work; I can't develop plugins Web Client.  Finally, the FlashBuilder tool is the only piece of the puzzle that is a licensed product, and therefore, I won't be able to buy the product if I can't get the trial version to work.

  FlashBuilder has an installer of plugin for Eclipse.  I tried to install the plugin following spring tools, and I tried to install the plugin in a regular version of the eclipse.  In both cases, the problem I encounter is that I cannot locate VMware files and does not have the Virgin service which is present when I didn't have the plugin installed FlashBuilder.

  Someone has no experience or knowledge in FlashBuilder getting to work in this type of installation?  Clearly, it's doable, but using all the documents that I can find online, I can't FlashBuilder work in my environment.

  Thanks for any help or suggestion you may have.

  You should post questions Flash Builder Flash Builder Forum.

  http://forums.Adobe.com/community/flash_builder?view=discussions

• VMware View and vSphere/ESX4

  I never tested with VMware View in any installation ESX so please forgive my ignorance on the subject.

  What I've read, I know that VMware View is not currently supported under vSphere but it should be later in the year.

  My question is: is it possible to run VMware View in vSphere/ESX4 and y at - it not crash you have experienced? I have a few clients who want to start a project with the product, but I'm tired to sell it to them without knowing if it is possible to run in vSphere or not.

  As I understand it, VMware View is just a series of virtual machines (View Manager for the management) and several other virtual machines for delivery of operating system invited to end users, so I think its possible to run, just not supported.

  Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thank you.

  jjohnston1127 wrote:

  Thanks for the reply.

  Exactly how desktop computers are delivered to the end user? They give you a connection with the VI Client to vCenter and displays the available machines, they control?

  Display Client, Thin Client or View Portal (browser). Basically, we use RDP as the main Protocol for now (PCoverIP is the slate and many talked of the future Protocol). In simple terms, us tie in with the AD. The user connects by using one of the methods mentioned. The broker for connections check the user/pass, see what desktop computers - if any - they have right to and presents this list to the user. The user selects and then, if the SSO is enabled, records in their office environment. They have several desktop computers and screens (up to 4) if necessary.

  When the view is supported for vSphere and released, you know / think it will be difficult to migrate from individual offices shared through the clones related, or computers is - same not possible?

  God I hope not. For now, I have no idea, but I imagine they would create some sort of upgrade. View Manager is nothing else than a web application.

  I'm sure I think other issues later, but I can review the product documentation to answer most of them. I wanted to just grab a little better quickly because I have an appointment in an hour or two with a client

  Documentation has made a huge difference and give you a better idea of how this works.

  You want to make a difference in the future of VMware products? Feature to ask your ideas ( http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/feature.html )!

• How to correctly record the ESXi 4.0 and vSphere Client for free?

  Hello everyone.

  Can someone help me with registration

  of free VMware ESXi 4.0? I am totally confused with the process I

  certainly do not understand.

  My goal is to install and use ESXi

  4.0 and manage via vSphere client with free licenses free of charge for

  more than 60 dayes. Is it possible?

  Installation of its products

  gone without problems, but failed to save. I found a few

  suggestion on other threads, but nothing helped. Give me a hand please,

  I will be grateful.

  I'll write what I did:

  1. I went to the http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/ site.

  2. I read that I can get the free license for VMware ESXi 4 and VMware vSphere Client.

  3. Decided to download this software, registered and was redirected to
     the site where I could download iso 4 ESXi and vSphere Client .exe

  4. Installation and basic configuration of ESXi on the bare metal and vSphere Client Windows XP without problems.

  5. I am able to create virtual machines and use it - it's OK, but vSphere Client know that I have to the 60-day trial.

  6. Meanwhile I received the email with "Activate your VMware ESXi license".

  7. I have
     Click on the link in the e-mail and was redirected to the same
     the site, where I can download the software, but on the top of the web page I can
     find information and a 'ESXI licenses""this license key is valid.
     "for VMware ESXi 3.5 Update 2 and later versions. So I guess it's also valid
     for ESXI 4.0. I'm I right?

  8. I would like to record my ESXi 4 software installed and the vSphere Client. Of
     I chose the vSphere Client Menu: help - & gt; VMware on the web - & gt;
     Sign up for now. The site ask me "series/license number Activation".
     Code"so I typed the license key. Iassume that this license key should not be placed here, because the web site of replay that: "Code of Activation of series/license number has already been registered. So how do?

  As I wrote, I'm confused. How to correctly record the ESXi 4.0 and vSphere Client? What I did wrong and how to fix?

  To register the serial number in your ESX4i host

  Home-> inventory-> higher level (your ESXi host)

  Tab Configuration

  Left side - features licensed

  Edit-> Assign new key for this host-> Enter Key

  Paste your key

  Confirm all

  Your ESXi server is now fully licensed

  Note: you no longer have the basic features and all the enterprise features that came with a trial license are no longer valid

  Maish

  Architect of virtualization & Systems Administrator

  http://technodrone.blogspot.com