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• Question about vSphere Essentials?

  Hello guys,.

  We follow the evaluation starting Advisor and recommended vSphere Essentials, Essentials + or advanced. At the moment we have 3 host so wise to choose the essential but Jules Destrooper point one have a doubt? We use vSphere 4 ESXi free version in any army 3, if we buy the essential version that it will include a new incense for the ESXi and vCenter management license or we bought 3 license to convert the free ESXi in licensed version?

  Any Adviser will appreciate.

  Thank you

  Hello

  If you buy the essentials license is sufficient to operate the 3 servers (2 Sockets for the server) esxi and a vCenter. You don't need something more.

  Obviously, you will need to upgrade your actual free license to the essential one.

  Here you can see the types and features of vmware licenses.

  Hope this helps

  Best wishes / Saludos.

  Pablo

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• Questions about the upgrade to vSphere Essentials

  My group is looking to upgrade our ESXi (free) installation to vSphere Essentials. Before do us, I have a few questions (I tried calling & commercial VMWare email, but no one seems to be there):

  1. We have an existing ESXi to install, and we'll add a 2nd machine to host VMs can I use vCenter (from Essentials) to manage two computers?

  2. Requirements for vCenter status she has 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory and 3 GB of disk space for up to 50 guests. However, we have 2 guests and we add a 3rd host is far in the future (in years). Can we run vCenter on an existing installation of windows server 2003? We have a server that meets these requirements, but it also makes other tasks (some calculations, files and backup service). Given these lighter constraints, will that be enough to manage our two hosts?

  Memory is a problem I think. But my vCenter with 9 guests and 150 VM a average 2-5% CPU load with 1 quad Xeon, so don't worry is not the CPU.

  Local Oracle DB installed on the machine of vCenter.

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• Newbie question: ESXi 6.0 free vs vSphere Essentials Kit

  I currently have a server host running ESXi 5.5 (free version), accommodation mainly a lab with SQL servers and workstations Windows infrastructure.

  I plan to upgrade the vSphere Essentials Kit and I was wondering what are the additional benefits I would get paid Kit essentials ESXi free 6.0 vs.

  So far, I can think of the following:

  -Possibility to install on two additional host servers (however I don't really have this requirement for the moment)

  -Compatibility with VMWare as ALTARO and VEEAM backup software. (This would be beneficial)

  What are the other benefits Essentials Kit would offer a server environment unique host which would be sufficiently attractive to force one to go compared to the free version?

  Thank you for any comments.

  ArnieC

  Another great advantage will be the Server vCenter which adds lots of features and will help you manage all three hosts. Have a look here some of the additional benefits: http://www.vladan.fr/esxi-free-vs-paid/

• VMWare vSphere Essentials Plus Kit

  My apologies in advance if this is posted in the wrong place - I'm going round and round, trying to find answers and appropriate to place.

  I have reflected on vSphere Essentials Plus Kit for 3 guests and just have a few questions.

  (1) the limitation specified 2 CPUs.  Does mean physical cores?  For example, I currently have a small number of virtual machines running on a HP DL360 G5 which has processor Xeon.  ESXi is reported as 2, but 8 cores.  So in this example VMWare will consider this 2 CPU or 8 CPU? (I realize that this material is not compatible with vSphere V5, but I'd be curious to understand the principle of limitation)

  (2) is in any way to migrate to ESXi 4.1 vSphere Essentials Plus Kit (which I suppose is 5.1?) because it would take me a hardware and software upgrade.  Or am I better implementation of a new system and use something like vCenter Converter to move virtual machines?

  (3) is there such a thing as a vSphere Essentials Plus Kit evaluation?  If this is not the case, how can I do for my test environment.  I don't want to invest in a new hardware/software, if for some reason any that does not work for me

  I'm looking to move to ESXi for reasons of redundancy and reslience.  I have only 1 ESXi box run currently with about 6 VM I'm not a major user and I think that more Kit Essentials fits the Bill on all the rest.

  Thanks in advance for your comments and advice.

  
  Paul

  vSphere supports different types of storage systems (NAS, iSCSI, FC,...). For a complete list of what is supported, please look at http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl

  André

• features of vSphere 4.1 vSphere Essentials Kit 5.1 vs esxi

  Hello

  I'm new here and I have my vSphere server knowledge is limited.

  Our company is currently leading a free version of the server esxi 4.1 vSphere.

  Now, we have reached a point where we intend to implement some automation of test for our software products. To do this, we need to be able to programmatically control the virtual test machines (power on / power off, go back to the snapshot, copy files, etc.). VSphere free version does not offer that, and it seems that we have to upgrade to a paid version.

  The question:

  Is this the version licensed vSphere 5.1 Kit Essentials offers at least the same features that the free version of vSphere 4.1 offers? I could imagine, the very basic paid the 5.1 version of vSphere Essentials Kit has done some limitations compared to the 4.1 vSpehre esxi, same if vSphere 5.1 Kit Essentials has the feature of writing available to the "remote command line interface" (which we would need to manage the test program by computers).

  Tounsiiaa you!

  Gatis

  I can't think of all the features of the free version that are not available in the edition of Essentials 5.1, except for the number of sockets/CPUs per host, which is limited to 2 with the Essentials Kits.

  André

• esxi free upgrade to VMware vSphere Essentials Kit

  Hi we are a small company with a new 1 and 1 old server sent us this question for the Department sales of vmware but have had no response.

  We have two questions we hope that someone has had a few experiences with.

  Currently we use free on our new server esxi5 if we buy VMware vSphere Essentials Kit

  1. is it just a matter of the conclusion of the license in the free version of esxi to give it functionality increase so there is not need to reinstall things?

  2 if we have VMware vSphere Essentials Kit it would allow us to use tools such as quest vRanger pro or Acronis vmProtect for backup and replication connection.

  It would be much cheaper than the use of VMware vSphere Essentials Kit pro and seems to do the same job.

  Thank you

  Welcome to the community!

  Is it just a matter of the conclusion of the license in the free version of esxi to give it functionality increase so there is not need to reinstall things?

  Yes enter vSphere Essentials Kit License keys will unlock the applicable for this Kit features, re - install ESXi will be not be held

  If we have VMware vSphere Essentials Kit it would allow us to use tools such as quest vRanger pro or Acronis vmProtect for backup and replication connection.

  vSphere Essentials Kit inclused vStorage APIs for Data Protection so you should be good to use the third-party data protection software

• vSphere Essentials Plus 5

  Afternoon people

  I have a client that I visited the other day and they decided to implement VMWARE ESX 4.1 in their environment, they use the following

  3 x ESX host servers

  1 x vCentre

  DRS

  2 x iSCSI without

  18 x Virtual Machines

  They have installed this as a POC on trial, somehow, they decided to P2V all their live servers in the closed ESX and are now their operational infrastructure. The trial license will expire in 2 weeks and I suggested that they buy vSphere Essentials 5, more than it supports only up to 3 guests complete with DRS which is what they use. My question is the license that is provided by VMWARE buying easily transposable to the current configuration without the need to upgrade all systems? The important thing is now that they can continue their VMs operating system.

  Thank you very much

  Yes - you will just need to apply the license on the vCenter server and they will be approved for essentials Plus-noreinstall rwequired -.

• vSphere essentials, upgrade only vcenter

  I currently bundle vsphere essentials which includes

  1 x vcenter (with a maximum of 3 guests)

  3 x esx servers

  I want to be able to add more hosts to vcenter.

  Question: Can I just put the vcenter server to the full version of vcenter?

  I have to purchase new licenses for esx, so? (ouch)

  GD

  Question: Can I just put the vcenter server to the full version of vcenter?

  No, the only possible upgraded with Essentials is Essentials Essentials over.

  I have to purchase new licenses for esx, so? (ouch)

  Yes, you will need to get vCenter Standard as well as the CPU (Standard, Advanced, Enterprise or Enterprise Plus) licenses for guests.

  Since the EULA at http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/esx_esxi_eula.html

  VMware vSphere Essentials and VMware vSphere Essentials Plus

  If you have a VMware vSphere Essentials or VMware vSphere Essentials Plus license, the following additional license terms apply:

  VMware VMware vSphere Essentials licenses or VMware vSphere Essentials Plus editions (collectively, "editions") you only to manage the server up to three 3 hosts and your use of these editions is limited to servers with up to two processors. For these editions, the host server must be managed by the VMware vCenter Server that is provided with these editions and this same VMware vCenter Server cannot be used to manage other hosts from server not included with these editions

  See http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf

  André

• VSphere essentials 8 cpu cores

  Hi all

  We recently have quote a customer to purchase vsphere essentials with a server that will run 2 processors 6 hearts of each.

  After a month, that the customer has accepted the quote if we order the server, but we noticed it came with 2 CPUs, 8 cores on each. We always evaluate vsphere esxi 4.1 and we haven't bought yet most of license. The reason to upgrade to vsphere essentials was to migrate 3-4 very old physical servers to this new server. No need to HA or vmotion is necessary. We needed an inexpensive way to get rid of these old servers.

  Can someone explain to us what will be the situation if buy us the essentials license and insert it on vsphere? Esxi 4.1 vsphere will continue to operate with limited cpu core feature or it will prevent all our VMs to stop working?

  Thank you

  I can't answer your question with certainty, and I think the only one who can is VMware itself.

  My guess is that it can work, but you're probably violating the EULA.

  What I actually wanted to mention are the fact that some harware like HP providers offer a known BIOS setting 'disable Core processor'. This feature allows to disable some carrots.

  of http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01905798/c01905798.pdf

  When to turn off the processor cores

  While disabling the carrots may seem paradoxical to provide superior performance, there are at least three situations in which the disabling processor cores may be beneficial.

  -Use of power reduction. Disabling the processor cores reduces processor power consumption. If a server is used in an environment that is not heavily dependent on multithreading hearts, by disabling the can reduce energy consumption without significantly affecting performance.

  -Increase overall performance. Some applications take advantage of higher frequency of basis rather than extra processing cores. When Turbo Mode is activated for processors Intel Nehalem, savings on electricity and heat produced by disabling the processor cores allows the remaining sons operate at a higher frequency than their rated speed. In the specific application environments, this could actually increase the overall performance of the system.

  -Meet the licensing issues. Some software are permitted on a basis of by heart. Deactivation of the cores allows an administrator to match the number of active cores on a server with licensing requirements. However, some software that is allowed on a per-core basis may not recognize the deactivation of carrots.

  André

• Use of the Resource Pool with vSphere Essentials

  A silly question but I have to ask anyway:

  I have a license of vSphere Essentials with my two hosts ESXi4.  I knew that he was not in vSphere DRS.  What was not so obvious to me, it's that you need DRS activated in order to create a pool of resources to the cluster level vSphere without it.  (The option to create a new cluster is grayed out). http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1004098

  So my question is:

  Are there benefits to creating a cluster if you do not have DRS?  I now have to double and create pools of resources at the level of the host for two guests, who is an administrative burden.  In addition, one of the main reasons I have used resource pools was to facilitate the access rights based upon roles to specific virtual machines.   These two will now have to be defined for each host.

  We greatly appreciate your comments on this

  Other than the ability to use the VCA mode and setting up the location of the pagefile.  According to me, there isn't much more to a cluster if you use no HA or DRS.  Since you do not have DRS yor cannot create pools of resources that span multiple hosts within a cluster.

  You will need to create individual pools of resources on each host by taking your host from a cluster and have just in the data center.

  OBM

• Beyond vSphere Essentials Plus

  I am considering upgrading to VMware Server 1.x and 2.x to vSphere Essentials (MORE).

  There are currently two things stop me - first is a San, second track of evolution beyond MORE.  As I understand it the authorisation scheme, with MORE I can be a total of 3 ESXi servers.  This number will certainly get a LONG way down my plan of virtualization, but it will not be the end of the road.

  I wonder what I need to do when I wanted to add my ESXi 4 Server?

  I can't find a way to upgrade MORE for vSphere Standard, or anything else besides.  Am I stuck with three servers if I put MORE in my network?

  And a new question, I'm fine of: what happens if I replace one of the physical servers?  Will be MORE aware of the change and as long as I remain under 3 production servers, I'll be OK?

  You will need to purchase licenses new vSphere for guests more vCenter Server Standard. It is impossible to upgrade , Essentials.

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• vSphere Essentials 4 key on ESXi3?

  Hi all

  I wanted to contact VMWare sales on this subject, but when I choose this option I had to fill out a form with personal data and he wasn't any room to ask a question...

  So, I'll try it here instead:

  I am currently using VMWare ESXi 3 servers (free version).

  I want to go buy VeeAm backup to go with that, but VeeAm support more free ESXi from VMWare changed their license conditions.

  No backup program must support VMWare ESXi free edition longer.

  So, there are 3 licenses of VMWare ESX or ESXi, VMWare vSphere Essentials and several other options.

  It's price just below $ 1,000 is really affordable.

  However, if I were to buy this package, I guess I'll get the license keys to enter ESXi.

  Enter these keys in ESXi 3.5, I already use?

  I really don't want to move these machines to 4.0: if it's not broken, don't fix it.

  And another question: we buy our servers with pre-installed ESXi. New servers will have 4.0 installed. Can I use these Essentials license keys in these pre-installed versions of ESXi as well?

  Thanks for any help!

  Edit: both pis... Seen this

  > Note: the downgrade option is not available with ESXi 4 single server, vSphere 4 Essentials and Essentials of vSphere 4 (more). Only whole orders can be retired.

  Post edited by: Troy Clavell:

• VSphere Essentials Plus - upgrading

  Hi people,

  Big Question?  :|    Is it possible to pass of VSphere Essentials / Essentials more of VSphere Standard or Enterprise?

  I looked up and down, and it seems that it is not possible, including some messages in forums about the Essentials VS as a 'end product'.

  Is this true?

  Is same thing with VMotion for VS Essentials, possible to allow this feature?

  Thanks in advance for any idea,

  IS

  Things are changed.

  It is now possible.

  For example:

  Update: VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Bundle to vSphere Advanced Acceleration Kit for 6 transformers

  VS4-ESPL-AD-AK-UG-C

  André

• VSphere Essentials Plus Kit vs Standard

  All the

  I need help to make a decision here.  The environment is both physical server (2 CPU each) and they run out of a small local SAN.  I was going to get Essentials more but the problem is that it is around $ 5500 per server physical and that is almost as expensive as the server.  I'm looking for alternatives and I fell on VSphere Standard edition.  Although Essentials Plus has all the Bell and whistle I am looking for, but we can live with HA and vMotion.  The truth is that I can live with 15 minutes of downtime, I just need to know if I should get VSphere Standard edition or even Essentials that I have the opportunity to make a VM if I experience hardware failure?  Thank you in advance.

  Welcome to the community,

  vSphere Essentials Plus Kit comes with a license for an instance of vCenter Server Essentials and 6 CPU license for up to 3 guests with up to 2 processors each. No need to buy a Kit by server.

  André