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• Cluster with VSphere Essentials

  When I try to create a cluster with VSphere Essentials (no more) I'm offered HA and DRS (they are not greyed out, they are available). Are these trial versions that will be disabled in the future, or they are now included in Essentials?

  My understanding is that they would be unavailable at all. that is, they would be gray.

  To view your features under license:

  1. Open the vSphere Client and connect to your vCenter Server
  2. Select a host in your cluster
  3. Click the Configuration tab
  4. Click on the link "Features licensed" under the software

  All licensed features are presented here. Search for "VMware HA" and "VMware DRS" see if they are allowed.

  

• 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

• vCenter Server with vSphere Essentials best practices for small business

  I hesitated to post this thread for fear of redundancy, but I wasn't able to find an answer in previous discussions.

  I read the installation documentation for vSphere Essentials vCenter Server installation.

  
  Is it a good idea to install vCenter on my ESXi host as a virtual machine?  I don't understand how the server can be installed as a virtual machine if she must always be on.  What happens when I do the updates of the hypervisor, ESXi (4.0 to 4.1)?  This would not cause the vCenter Server to disconnect?

  Because I have Essentials, I don't have a HA and cannot migrate the server vCenter Server to another host as shown in the installation documentation.

  Thank you

  It should not be a problem - if you manually perform the update using either the esxupdate or vcenter command vihostupdate does not at all in the game - if you use VUM he actually intitiates the vihostupdate order - when restarting the host to be reconnecting to vcenter once it is running.

• ESXi 4.1 Standard for VSphere Essentials?

  Hello. We have two hosts with Esxi embedded 4.1 standard. We use local, non-shared storage, and soon we will not anytime shared storage.

  In order to obtain cost-effective centralized managemend (right now I have to use separate Vi clients for each host), I was instructed to check Vsphere Essentials.

  It looks like it may work for us as we only use not the more advanced of the Standard license options, however I wonder if I'll have to re - install Vsphere on my hosts in order to centrally manage, or if the console provided with Vsphere Essentials will centalized management of my servers Esxi pre-existing without changing my installation current Esxi... does make sense? My Vmware sales representative wasn't sure of what I would have to do.

  Thank you!

  PK

  VMware binaries are the same for all editions, so there is usually no problem with replacement of the license key. However, with the embedded edition that you mentioned, I'm not sure. It's an OEM version specific provider ESXi or did you install the version of VMware? In the case of a specific edition of the seller, you can contact the vendor to find out if the license change is allowed/possible. If it is not possible to change the license, it should be possible to reinstall ESXi on the USB/SD device without problems for virtual machines. All you need to do in this case is to reconfigure the host (for example, network, NTP,...)

  About centralized management, there is also no re-installation of the ESXi servers needed. All you need to do is deploy a virtual instance of vCenter Server (based on Windows or the Appliance vCenter) and connect the hosts to this instance. This can be done without interruption of service for virtual machines.

  André

• VSphere Essentials Plus upgrade to vSphere with operations management standard

  Hello

  We currently have vSphere Essentials more running on 3 hosts, and we want to upgrade to vSphere with the Standard edition of management operations (with vCenter Server) using the kit of acceleration.

  Please confirm if it takes to change the key of any upgrade of software or installation or license only it will take?

  Waiting for the answer. Thank you

  Sound just change of license keys. Binaries are all of same for all versions, just the keys toggle features.

  -If you have found my reply useful/correct please close the message by checking the answer.

• License for vSphere Essentials 6, more

  Hello

  We have a client vSphere Essentials 5, more. If the customer wants to upgrade to version 6, they should buy some sort of license?

  I had a look at the my.vmware account, but could not see any version 6 it.

  / R

  Andreas

  If you have a Support and subscription current and active contract customer, you can upgrade to the new version free of charge.

  VMware KB: How to upgrade license keys in my VMware

• VMware vsphere essentials more and Dell MD3000i iSCSI - virtual disk not on preferred path

  Hello world

  I am trying to set up our new vmware vsphere essentials plus the facility. We have 2 x Dell R710 servers running vmware esx4 and have a md3000i SAN.

  Each server has a network cable to connect to a network SAN controller.

  vmserver1 a vmnic6 IP 192.168.130.110 the IP controller connection 0 192.168.130.101

  vmserver1 has IP 192.168.130.111 vmnic4 connection to controller 1 IP 192.168.130.102

  vmserver2 a vmnic 6 IP 192.168.131.110 the IP controller connection 0 192.168.131.101

  vmserver2 has IP 192.168.131.111 vmnic4 connection to controller 1 IP 192.168.131.102

  Whenever I start a virtual server it causes the dell md3000i start flashes orange, and management tool says disc not on favorite virtual path.

  After entering the tool configuration and affecting the path preferred, from the commencement to vmware, even with a single connected server it causes the error.

  I tried to configure vmware to use direct fixed and alternate paths.

  I did a quick search on Google and found these sites:

  http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/VMware ESX4.0andPowerVault MD3000i

  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/storage/f/1216/t/19269507.aspx

  Strange configuration.

  Looks like you are using some cross cable?

  Each host must have 2 vSwitches, each with a port vmkernel on one of the two iSCSI network.

  Each host must reach all 4 of the MD3000i (test with the vmkping command) interface.

  See also:

  http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/VMware ESX4.0andPowerVault MD3000i

  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

• VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit Upgrade

  Hello

  We are currently running VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0 and VMware ESXi VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit license 5.1 with 5.1.0. I think the move to VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server 6.0 6.0

  
  

  I already had a host with ESXi 6.0 and I tried to use my existing on this host 6.0 Essentials Plus Kit License, but it does not work. I have to upgrade my license key? What are my options?
  

  VMware vSphere license key update

  You must obtain new licenses to deploy VMware vSphere 6.0. VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x existing licenses vSphere will not work on vSphere 6.0.

  Please see after the URL and you'll get more info on what you are looking for

  VMware vSphere 6 prices and licenses. United States

• Question of vSphere Essentials

  We currently have 2 systems, both with business licenses (test/live).

  These systems are available in our vsphere client in 2 different data centers, we have a license for the most part and I would like to add an additional data center in our current configuration with some under essentials esxi hosts more, is it likely to work if you create a separate data center within our current system?

  To be compatible with the license (and I think that it is also technically enforced) you must manage the Essentials Kit separately by business systems, for example using the server vCenter Server included in the Kit and manage environments using two sessions of vSphere Client. As needed, you can consider to upgrade Essentials more than Standard license allowing you to add hosts to an existing vCenter Server (assuming that you do not have licenses for the Foundation, which limits the number of hosts to 3).

  André

• vSphere Essentials Plus to level 4.1 to 5.5

  Hi all

  I begin the process of upgrading a 4.1 Essentials in addition to 5.5, also essential Plus.

  My question is not directly related to the issue of upgrading, but rather ask some advice from a more experienced user. I'll try to explain my problem.

  Our current data center consists of three physical servers each with, among other material:

  -2 physical CPU

  -32 GB OF RAM

  -6 GB/s NIC

  We also have two switches to provide redundancy of the network between the host computers

  The current network layout, as far as the ESX hosts are concerned, do not reside on the implementation of VLAN. He is the current approach of the network by the hosts:

  -Each two NIC are grouped into 3 groups NIC

  -Each group NIC is connected to two switches, for purposes of availability

  -There are basically 3 different physical networks

  The problem with the current provision is that almost all communications are limited to 1 Gbps.

  Another problem is the issue of scalability not having a VLAN.

  I take this window of upgrade, not only for vSphere upgrade to version 5.5, but also to try to improve the scalability and performance of the network.

  One of the main goals is to get more than 1 Gbps on communications. Now, this is my way of thinking on this:

  -J' I will consolidate the network cards in a group of 4 network cards and another of 2 NETWORK cards. This will give me a total of 2 Gbps on the network management and 4 Gbps on the other networks. QoS can be applied, giving different layouts, but I'm just trying to keep things simple for you (the reader)

  As far as I know there may be several approaches:

  (1) use of Cisco Nexus 1000v: as far as I know, this isn't an option, because it requires the Enterprise Plus version, which is not an option ;(

  (2) creation of LACP aggregation not between multiple network cards and two switches: switches HP 2510, which do not support inter trunking switch so it can be done.

  So, I find myself with a few, in my perspective two poor approaches:

  (3) create two standard vSwitch, subgroups of the Group of four of the NETWORK card into two groups of two network cards and connecting each vSwitch to a different physical switch. The issue of availability should be ensured on each of the virtual machines that contain two vNIC, one tied to each vSwitch. That would get me a rate of 2 Gbps.

  (4) I use single vSwitch for all 4 cards but, connect it to a single physical switch. I then configure the second switch as a watch only pass with the same configuration as the asset. This would require manual intervention in the case of the failure of the active switch, which would be very unpleasant.

  This is the help that I need. Is that all that I'm missing? Is there anything else I can do to try to take advantage of our current infrastructure?

  If you have done this far, thank you for your patience .

  Thank you all,

  Rui Santos

  From a design point of view, one key rule is to keep it as simple as possible. You don't want to introduce the complexity of your environment. I guess it's only a small environment (the license you have and the number of networks, not not using virtual LANs). 1 GB network is already saturated? My approach to this is to identify where the bottleneck can be. Majority of the number with vSphere performance is in stock, not in the network. If you are really worried about the scalability of the network, the simplest approach for me is to enable a VLAN and allow circuits. You can then combine the 4 NICs in a vSwitch and let (route in port ID function) default load balancing policy do its thing.

  Just my 2 cents...

• Confused.  5 of vSphere Essentials 'various assets '?

  Bought vSphere Essentials trying to get the work of Vcenter Server Appliance virtual vmware.  When you try to license key returns the message that says "the license key belongs to a product that is intended for a different type of asset.

  Yet when I have the decoding, it says "VMware vSphere Essentials 5 (unlimited cores per processor).   To which I replied "uh..." Yes?... and...? "

  What is going on?  Thank you.

  It runs vCenter but with a different license. With Essentials (more), you get 2 licenses:

  -> 5 vsphere Essentials (more) operating licence (3 guests) on the host

  -> vCenter Server Foundation (host 3) license for the vCenter Server

  So, get hold of the other licence and you will see that it works.

• 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

• vSphere Essentials 5 and vCenter Essentials - cannot add host - vMotion

  I would like to know how to add a host to vCenter Essentials for vSphere essentials.

  We bought vSphere Essentials and Essentials vCenter to improve our existing for Vsphere 4.1 Essentials environment.  Everything went well with the update on the host computer.  vSphere and vCenter allocated through the vSphere client license keys.  We installed vCenter and web client on a 2008 Server VM on the esxi host. The host has a number of existing virtual machines.  When attempting to add a host after have created the data center must be of VMotion.

  Must the esxi host be empty when adding to vCenter essential?

  Thank you.

  It sounds like you administering hosts in the mode of assessment so far and I tried some of the Enterprise Plus features! The Essentials Kit includes not vMotion (only Essentials more done) then you should remove the port vMotion group - if there is one - in the virtual network configuration to make the edition of Essentials-compatible host.

  André