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• Issue of license VCenter 4.1

  No doubt very basic question, but I have a four node cluster running ESX 3.5, managed by a VCenter 4.0 using the old system .lic.  I'm moving this cluster to a VCenter 4.1, which uses the new license key and I was wondering how to handle the transfer of licences to a .lic to a real vmware key I type?  The old cluster will remain in production because I have another cluster that needs to stay on this subject for now.

  On a related note, I have another race to vcenter 4.1 Foundation license, three host ESXi 4.1 management mode.  I have an old vcenter running the Enterprise version that performs a few different groups.  I want to gradually move off the former vcenter clusters to the new, but cannot do so until I get an enterprise for my new vcenter license as the Foundation to manage three hosts.  Once I've migrated all virtual machines off the old vcenter I can reuse this license of the company, but until I can do it is there a work around?  Additional guests can be used on the Vcenter Foundation for a certain period of time before they stop working?  Basically I was wondering how best to juggle the licensing vcenter foundation and the company.

  Thanks in advance?

  Hello edawg, you must maintain the license during your migration process server for esx 3.5 need this license server.

  In the website of vmware, you can access with the registered account and download the new license (if you care), and it should be applied in the new vcenter 4.1.

  Hope that I help you.

  Diego

• 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.

• Question about license vcenter 5.5

  Hello people,

  Small doubt just wanted to know that I'm gng to upgrade the vcenter of 5.0 to 5.5 and I downloaded the trial version of vcenter 5.5 using tests of environment but now 60 days has been more so if I install on I think that production which will continue to work as we have a 5.0 license in place.

  Any suggestions?

  Thank you

  Hello, amitb79.

  VMware does not divide the licenses of minor versions of products (this is certainly true for vSphere and views), it is not Microsoft (2012 and 2012 R2 for example). Your license will be working fine for 5.5 too.

  Hmm, but Microsoft told us that Win 2012 and 2012R2 are different products, but who cares.

• Licensing vCenter confusion

  I'm pretty new to VMWare and be a sysadmin in general, so I'm confuse that I inherited through the environment, and try to understand things. We have two sites with VM hosts; our HQ office which has 3 guests and a recovery with a single host site. Until a few months ago the host DR no was not managed by a vCenter server. I joined the single host on the DR site to an empty data center object unit of vCenter server running on hosts in HQ. I don't remember if she asked for a license of sort or not when I did.

  Now, I try to get RS to work between the sites, so I've deployed a unit of vCenter server to host the site of DR and licensed. Now, I'm trying to attach an empty object of the DR DR vCenter Server host data center (and thus remove the server vCenter in HQ).

  When I do this, the wizard asks me to assign a license key to this host. Here is where I get lost. He suggests that I attribute a license key that I already use for this host, but when I try to use it I tells me that the license belongs to other inventory and I'm going to be in non-compliance, unless I delete the inventory. I don't know what all this means, so I dug through my licenses available on the VMWare website, until I found the Red-obscured license in there and I have this. The license that is obscured in red is one that is in use on the site of HQ. So if I understand correctly, then I should put that is obscured in green on the DR site?

  Hello

  Yes, you are right.  10 - CPU package appears as the unique license key and can therefore be installed in a vCenter.  Other license keys 5 processors will have to be added to your vCenter DR.

  All the best,

  Mike

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• Licensing vCenter Server

  Dear team,

  Please let me know is vcenter 4 standard license will work with vcenter server5.1 or to buy / upgrade of the existing license. Please help me with the complete steps.

  concerning

  Mr. Vmware

  From a technical point of view, you will have two license keys after the license upgraded in my VMware, one for version 4.x (the existing one) and one for version 5.x (newly assigned license). However, with the upgrade of the license key in the portal, you agree to stop using the old license.

  André

• license vcenter/esx

  Buenos dias,

  I have a 2.5 vcenter if quiero actualizalo hasta version lo puedo hacer ago that no tengo el serial number no solo el archivo.lic

  Saludos

  Hola pryda,

  Estas in esa version estas muy desactualizado, al Día de hoy are passed por 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1

  Desde 4.0 without is usa mas the license server (archivo.lic)

  ES decir podras quedarte en vcenter 2.5 con hosts 3.5 U5 o ESX3.0.3 u1

  El of you dejo link a compatibility matrix that can find facilmente para you stage

  http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php?

  Saludos

  Diego Quintana

  

• Licensing vCenter 5.0 for ESX 3.5 Server update5

  I'm about to upgrade my vCenter 2.5 to 5.0 on a 64-bit VM. For now, I leave my host to 3.5 update 5. When I install the license server, can I bring over the old file from my old server vcenter 2.5 license? Also, if I do a new install of 5.0 and point to my database server, I have to use the data for this upgrade migration tool?

  Thank you

  Yes, you will need the original from the old server vcenter licenses, or you can download them on the VMware license portal.

  If you perform a new installation, Yes, you can use the data migration tool-

• Licensing vCenter with SRM

  Hi all

  I seem to be going round in circles with this question - I have read the documentation and recorded a call with the service the customer on this subject, and the answers are contradictory to say the least...

  We seek to implement a SRM solution in a new infrastructure - essentially a management cluster will use SRM failover management of virtual machines to a domain protected to a DC recovery in another city controller.  The DC recovery will be dark for normal operations, only more direct when MRS. failover occurs and will not host virtual machines.

  The question I have vCenter licenses of MRS. The documentation states that, during failover of a vCenter server from a site protected for a recovery site hosting any other virtual machines, only 1 vCenter license is required. However the VMware licenses team said the 2 licenses are required for automatic restoration of VMs for the protected site of origin once he recovered.

  So, who is? Any thoughts anyone (who is not a dealer or someone trying to sell me licenses)? Happy qualify points if necessary to answer the question...

  See you soon.

  Jeremy.

  the vcenter in Dominican Republic must be put under tension and linked with the SRM server of the RD, in this scenario, it's actually light and 2nd license is necessary.

• Licensing vCenter and vSphere/installation

  I have some difficulty to consolidate the vm for a client versions.

  vSphere Essentials Kit includees vCenter Server and Agents for up to 3 guests, but the hosts did not have vMotion/HA

  http://store.VMware.com/store/VMware/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/ProductID.126843700?RESID=TdLD3AoBAlkAAA1YCNoAAAAO & = 1306272327419 rests

  vSphere Standard license includes support for vMotion and HA

  http://www.VMware.com/products/vSphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

  Can I buy two Standard vSphere licenses and a vSphere Essentials Kit License HA and vMotion? The price including 1 year support package would be $3 430 instead of the vSphere Essentials Plus of a package (for 3 machines) to $4 369

  If this is not the case, what makes different product versions? Is it possible for vMotion/HA for only two guests at a lower price?

  The answer is no, vSphere Essentials only can be used with the host Essentials license license and may not be used with another license.

  The second answer is Yes, use the essential package more vSphere. It includes VMotion and HA.

  Concerning

  Diego Quintana

• Licensing Vcenter

  I installed in vCenter Evaluationm mode,

  Now, I bought vmware essential plus. I inserted the two licenses in the host vmware vsphere 4.0 all right.

  But when I enter the license in vCenter tells me he wants a license server, the license server is required?

  Thank you too much.

  f.

  Y at - it hosts in your ESX 3.5 inventory?

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• Dear friends: I need some help regarding licensing ESXI 5.

  My installation went like this.

  1 x Equallogic 4110 SAN with gross TB 7,2 of 10 GB/s ISCSI storage

  3 x Dell Poweredge r.620 with 2 x 6-8 cpu cores each and 32 GB of RAM

  2 x Powerconnect 10 Gbps ISCSI switch

  I intend to run the 14 and 15 guests inside these 3 ESXI hosts and will require VMotion. The Dell sales person recommend the Kit of acceleration Standard with 8 CPUs, but the cost of license means that I'll have to cut on the material that I do not want to do.

  I did a search on the licenses of VM and found the VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit that allows VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Plus Kit 3 guests (Max 2 processors per host) and 192 GB vRAM right.

  It seems that I can use the VMotion with this approval as well? But I dun on the right of vRAM 192GO? My features of material meets the criteria? 2 x 6-8 cores CPU / 32 GB of physical RAM on each host and the ESXI host MAXIMUM number is 3 for my office. Thanks for the help.

  3 EXSI guests will come with 64 GB RAM instead. I assumed that it will always meet the essential requirements more permission?

  With vSphere paid versions, is not the physical memory that counts but the payment of vRAM, which is the sum of pool memory allocated to the lit of VMs (more certain overload) with 3 guests (64 GB) you probably do not do flow in no limit payment of vRAM, since you will usually not work hosts on the limit , but keep enough free resources on each host to be able to run all the virtual machines in case one of the hosts fails.

  André

• -= Decommissioning of a license key on ESXi host in order to import in vCenter Server Essentials 6 =-

  Our company recently bought a license for VMware vCenter Server 6 Essentials for vSphere (VCS6-ESSL-C) with license keys for VMware vSphere Essentials 6 for 1 processor (ha6-ESSL-C).

  I accumulated vCenter Server 6 on a physical device and assigned the new relevant license key, as well as installed Update Manager Server on this machine. This instance seems to be functional and functional.

  Now, I'm trying to import 3 x ESXi hosts in this environment which have the license keys from an environment "vSphere advanced 5. These 3 hosts are administered under an instance of VM of vSphere vCentre, that I want to the Commission under this license and the license on these hosts is no longer valid after a takeover of the company.

  Question:

  (A) Comment can I get correctly to the setting of these hosts so that I can use the new vSphere license key 6 that I received?

  (B) should I upgrade these hosts to v6 ESXi befin environment to use this new license key?

  (C) do I need to disable features on the hosts in order to apply to apply this license key "6 of vSphere Essentials?

  (D) what is the correct order for doing all these things to use this new environment vCentre?

  Thanks in advance for any assistance given.

  Concerning

  Grant

  I havn't done it myself yet, but I think you should be able to achieve your goal, follow these steps:

  -downgrade license keys CPU Essentials to v5 im Portal MyVMware

  -the value of the new vCenter Server Evaluation Mode (actually maybe not necessary)

  -Add the licenses of Essentials v5 license vCenter inventory 6

  -Add hosts to the new vCenter Server ESXi 5.5 and assign licenses Essentials guests

  -re - assign the license previously removed to vCenter Server

  André

• I would like to download the license for Vcenter 5.5

  Hello:

  We recently purchased a new (HP DL380 Gen9) ESXi host and that host will work with Version 5.5 Update 2.  I was asked my our VMware consultant to connect to our VMware account and get the license for Vcenter 5.5 .  I can log on to the account; but, how to the license for Vcenter 5.5?

  Then the license "vCenter Server 5 Essentials" should be sufficient. You should be able to download vCenter 5.5 from here (but don't forget to take the update correct level: 5.5, 5.5 U1 or U2 5.5): VMware vSphere 5: Private Cloud Computing, server and data center virtualization

  And you should think about upgrading 5.1 hosts after that vCenter device is installed and configured.

• vCenter Licensing Question

  We are currently conducting environment vSphere with vCenter Server 5 5 (using the VCSA).  My vSphere, ESXi licensing have the right to upgrade to vSphere 6, but is not my vCenter license.  After further review, we have seen that the SnS support contact us on our vCenter license had expired in January 2015, so we went ahead and got that renewed back support.  My question is, now that we have renewed the support we may update this license vCenter vCenter license 5 6 or we will have to buy a new license of vCenter 6 new?  I checked my VMware Licensing Portal and this shows that we have supported on vCenter 2018 license, but I don't see any option upgrade to this topic.  Any input would be greatly appreciated.

  Welcome to the community,

  as far as I know all the licenses that are (or were taken over at the time a new version was released) by an active subscription can be upgraded. When you select "Update license keys" in the drop down menu "I want", you should be able to select and upgrade your vCenter Server license.

  André