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• Free ESXi using more a carrot?

  I use free ESXi on a server with a Dual Core processor.  When I apply the serial number, features licensed watch I am licensed to 1 CPU.  If my server has 1 processor Dual Core - ESXi uses the two hearts?

  Yes. VMware licenses are per-socket not by heart.

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator

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• Impossible to use 5.5 free ESXi?

  Hi guys,.

  I have a question. I want to use ESXi 5.5 my free license. I downloaded the installer and install it on my server. But whenever I want to connect via vSphere, I get a message that I left the 60 days for the activation of ESXi, otherwise it will not work.

  How can I use my license key, so that my server can work more than 60 days?

  Best regards!

  Hello

  It is a normal behavior.

  Now you use a license in evaluation mode (all features enabled).

  When the 60-day trial period is over, all licensed features will be disabled, and certain tasks (for example on and off the virtual machines power) will not be allowed.

  Then, you change the evaluation by a license license free esxi, before the 60-day evaluation period expires.

  Check this box to get information on this topic:

  Documentation Centre of vSphere 5.5

  Documentation Centre of vSphere 5.5

  Best regards

  Pablo

• Free ESXi details

  could someone please shed some light on where he is now.

  (1) I realize that the free ESXi 5.5 new lifted restrictions of memory, but these restrictions have also been lifted for older versions?  Why VMware would remove the restriction to the 5.5 versions but not earlier?

  (2) if the restriction is not thrown for 5.1, which is the real restriction?  It's 32 GB of ram total in the server, or 32 GB of ram per socket, I saw it part two ways in different positions...

  (3) if the restriction is not thrown for 5.1, what should a user expect to see should when they try to apply the free license to 5.1 hypervisor that has more memory X memory in the host? (I say X because I have not yet replied to question 2)

  Thank you.

  OK, thanks for your response guys, you were mostly correct.  but I felt to actually test this while you wait for the answer, here's the final on that:

  the host was built using eval similarly all hosts are built, he had 48 GB of memory.  When I tried to add the free lic he first gave me an error message indicating that it didn't belong to the product.  It doesn't have any meaning.  I tried again and got the same error... very frustrating.  One thing to note, I was connected directly on vmnic0 via my laptop on the completely isolated network.

  I tried again, only the 3rd time I tried, I was at my desk, connection to ESXi through vClient (I got access to the internet from this station), and this time the error message was completely different, he said that I was too memory displays the amount of memory (48 GB), said the ICA would support only 32GB.

  So the hypervisor starts indeed, but why wouldn't it, its still in eval mode... and after mode eval is finished, I think that ESXi will start at the hypervisor, but you just can not power on virtual machines.

  So the treat on the hypervisor, not boot or startup seems to be incorrect.

  If someone wishes to speak I'll keep this post open for a few days.

• Details on the VMA for free ESXi and ESXi 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade

  Hi all

  I recently did a upgrade to ESXi 4.0 U1 to ESXi 4.1 (and before doing so did not noticed that MAS will be more usable in 4.1). I wanted to just make sure that there is currently no way to using VMrun to automate the decommissioning and snapshot and reboot of the Guest OS on ESXi 4.1 and that there is not just an error in my code?

  vmrun h https://ESXI_SERVER/sdk u root Pei _PASSWORD_ t stop server "VM_NAME" "" sweet

  I work for a non-profit and my budget is tight at best (around $150.00 USD) per year for this project. My only choice is to roll back to 4.0 U1?

  Brent cordially

  When you say vMA will be more usable in 4.1, what do you mean by that? If you have upgraded to vSphere 4.1 and you want to use vMA, then you must download the version 4.1 of vMA compared to version 4.0.

  If you are referring to the license "bug" to VIX, VIX releases allowing yet it works on ESXi free is VIX 1.6.2 but the problem has also been fixed on the side of ESX (i) of things from 4.1. If you rely on this feature, you can return to 4.0.x.

  That said, you always have the option to use the Busybox Console (Tech Support Mode) to manage and perform various host and virtual machine using vimshoperations, it works with both a licensed version and free ESXi as the commands are executed within TSM and this could be an alternative without having to demote ESXi

• Essentials V2V conversion 4 free ESXi 3.5

  Hello

  I have 2 servers running on vSphere ESXi 4 Essentials more than license.  I need to switch to a free ESXi 3.5 server.  These 2 machines should be saved.  I don't think I can install the converter and v2v just them above the free version, and I know that I have 3 licenses for ESXi 4 but I have more not all 64-bit servers to run on. The guest computers are server 2003 32-bit.

  Is there an easy way to do this?

  Thank you

  Curt

  You shouldn't have any problem doing this with VMware Converter.

• Create more free space in C drive

  Can I delete ~DF2831.tmp and similar files in the user/user/AppData/Local/Temp folder to create more free space in C drive?

  Rather than doing these cleanups manually, I suggest to you that use the built-in Disk Cleanup tool. Please see:

  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Delete-files-using-Disk-Cleanup .

  Make sure that your backups are up to date before proceeding as a precaution.

• What does the red exclamation point and which would prompt me to now have more free disk space?

  It was getting my full disk space. Up to 1.2 GB to 73 GB. I removed some unnecessary files and programs up to 4.6 GB. Last night my internet was running very slow and I got a message that says that my disk space is full. I went to the Explorer, who intends to seek more to remove offline. To my surprise, it showed that I have 38 GB of free space. At the same time however, some (not all) of my desktop icons now have a red exclamation mark on them. There are some that are shortcuts, jpg files and doc files. That means the red exclamation that tempt me to now have more free disk space?

  I would just be guessing really. He could have files, online backup was queued up. It may be something to do with the shadow copy of Volume. If I use cleaning disc with the option all users and delete restore Points and shadow copies on the tab "More options", I'll be back about 15 GB on a disc of similar size. The effect is only temporary, until they accumulate again.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup

• I 86.5 free concerts and Vista does not level. He tells me I need 7538 MB to upgrade and I have a lot more free?

  I 86.5 free concerts and Vista does not level. He tells me I need 7538 MB to upgrade and I have a lot more free?

  Hi smkymountains,

  What is you receive the exact error message?

  Step 1: You can follow the steps mentioned in the article below

  Error message when you try to upgrade a computer to Windows Vista: "this computer does not have a sufficient space for temporary files.» Error code 0 x 80070103.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/928232

  Thank you, and in what concerns:

  Ajay K

  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• get updates from vm 10 odd hosts running free esxi

  Hello

  I have 10 strange hosts that are taking place in free esxi

  They have same passwd root...

  can anyone suggest a script that can pull the info vm from them?

  If they're in vcenter alone its easy, but in my case its little diff here

  Make sure that you are in multiple mode (Set-PowerCLIConfiguration), and then connect (Connect-VIServer) to each node ESXi.

  A cmdlet, such as the use of Get-VM, now, if you do not use the Server parameter, will run you on all connected nodes of ESXi.

  You can check the ESXi nodes connected by displaying the content of $global: defaultviservers

• Get-Stat and StatType Get with a free ESXi host

  I used the Get-StatType cmdlet to get a list of the values that I can get a free ESXi host and got a long list of values, I can get by using the cmdlet Get-Stat.

  Where can I get an explanation of the meaning of each value I can get?

  Concerning

  Marius

  Under the PerformanceManager in the SDK Reference documentation.

  And you can find a lot of info in VMTN communities and on several blogs (do a Google search)

• Collect a free ESXi host performance data

  I need to create e PowerCLI script to collect the performance data (SUC, RAM,...) on a (free) ESXi host and guest virtual machines.

  Y at - it no samples can I start from?

  Concerning

  Marius

  It work?

  Try {}

  Get-PSSnapin-name VMware.VimAutomation.Core - ErrorAction Stop

  }

  Catch {}

  Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

  }

  SE connect-Viserver-Server 192.168.1.1 - root user | Out-Null

  $esx = get-VMHost

  Get-Stat - $esx - Stat "cpu.usage.average" at the time entity real - MaxSamples - 1

  Disconnect VIServer Server 192.168.1.1

• Nested Vrsion Eval of ESXi 5.5 free ESXi

  OK, I'm playing with the advanced features of ESXi and I want to install a nested eval version of 5.5 ESXi in my free version of ESXi 5.5. Do a little research, I did the following:

  • Install VMware ESXi 5 on a physical host and configure networks, storage and other aspects as needed (already have this race successfully with other virtual machines running)
  • Configure a vSwitch or port group for the active Mode Promiscuous
  • Log Mode of Tech Support (ssh or ILO) and do the following to activate tweak nested 64-bit clients

    echo 'vhv.allow = "TRUE"' >> /etc/vmware/config

  In addition, I went to the tab my 5.5 ESXi VM options and is went to the CPU/MMU virtualization and tried both using Intel VT - x settings when I installed. In both cases, I received a warning when installing ESXi that she would not support 64-bit virtual servers. When I pressed forward in any case, I wasn't able to create a computer virtual using Windows 2008 R2 64-bit.

  So my questions are:

  -J' read somewhere that you may not be able use nested virtualization with the free version of ESXi. Is - this true/not true?

  -If you can make nested virtualization with free ESXi then what am I doing wrong? What are the settings to make it work. I wonder if I'm missing something.

  Thank you

  Steve

  SteveG40 wrote:

  • echo 'vhv.allow = "TRUE"' >> /etc/vmware/config
    

  This parameter is required for ESX 5.0.  It is no longer necessary.

  -J' read somewhere that you may not be able use nested virtualization with the free version of ESXi. Is - this true/not true?

  Not true.

  -If you can make nested virtualization with free ESXi then what am I doing wrong? What are the settings to make it work. I wonder if I'm missing something.

  See https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc%2FGUID-2A98801C-68E8-47AF-99ED-00C63E4857F6.html for instructions on exposure of hardware virtualization has helped prompt by using the web client, or simply change the configuration of your ESX VM file and add:

  VHV. Enable = TRUE

• vCenter Trial - add free ESXi existing Datacenter

  I've been running three hosts with the free version of ESXi. We try to evaluate licenses paid to get additional features (vMotion, etc.). I imported the virtual appliance for the server vCenter without any problem. Now I try to add my existing hosts in the data center, which I created in vCenter. When I do this, I get an error "download the file 10.161.30.3 to vCenter License Server failed because the exception: vim.fault.HostConnectFault". Is it not possible to add existing free ESXi hosts to vCenter trial?

  Cannot add ESXi hosts permitted by the hypervisor free license to vCenter Server. If the hosts 60-day evaluation period have not been achieved, we can use it in trial mode. Apart from this you can ask for the keys to the assessment of your VMware reseller representative.

  André

• Can I use SE Sparse files in 5.1 free ESXi?

  Can I use SE Sparse files in 5.1 free ESXi?  I want to use in order to avoid the current process to clean thin VMDK.  I read the article of Hogan vSphere 5.1 storage improvements - part 2: rare discs SE and it seems to indicate that it is only for the desktop view.  Here is How to create a floppy SE Sparse (footprint) in vSphere 5.1 shows it is possible, but speaks only the Web Client, which, from what I can tell, is not available for ESXi and have vCenter Server, which is not free.  If I'm missing something here, please let me know.

  Thank you!

  Sparse disk feature is not limited and should work fine in free ESXi, however the only supported way to use it is with VMware View.

  There is no way to support (or simple) use SE Sparse without view at present.

  Linjo