Upgrade free ESXi 4 to vSphere

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• What are the free ESXi / 5.1 vsphere Hypervisor hardware required / restrictions?

  Situation: I'm going to update a few web servers where I am currently under the free version of ESXi/vSphere 4.0.  When 5.0 was released, I decided to not look at new versions of VMware because of the restriction of vRAM and either run an earlier version or something.  I came across a post that says 5.1 license was different and stopped by the page 5.1 and read this http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere-hypervisor/requirements.html who actually reads differently.

  Questions: am I correct in my understanding of the restrictions for 5.1 are:

  1. 32 GB max RAM PHYSICS?  (It's a big change from 32GB vRAM).

  2. no limit on the number of CPUs or cores?  (This is a big change of physical processor 1 up to 6 cores max.)

  Thank you!
  

  PS: If the only real limitation is now 32 GB RAM virtual, VMware made a good shot.  I'm not the skin to VMware, so I think that physical 32 GB is perfect.  There is still only so much you can do in the 32 GB, but there is not the complexities of licensing.  The restriction of vRAM was impassable.  Server purchase is unnecessarily complicated by restrictions of socket and core.  This means that I could buy a standard speed core 8 or 10 cheaper XEON or use an older multiprocessor machine instead of an expensive high-frequency 6 core with hyperthreading.

  1. 32 GB max RAM PHYSICS?  (It's a big change from 32GB vRAM).

  Yes that's right FREE esxi supports maximum 32 GB physical RAM can only

  2. no limit on the number of CPUs or cores?  (This is a big change of physical processor 1 up to 6 cores max.)

  No Yes No limit on physical CPU or cores

• the upgrade free esxi 4.1-5

  I run several boxes of esxi 4.1 free standalone. what I have to buy licnses to upgarde to 5?

  No, you can register just for the 5.0 free hypervisor get new license keys and perform an interactive upgrade using the installation CD.

  André

• Trying to Downoad free ESXi: Getting "VMware vSphere evaluation expired '.

  Hi all

  I have a little problem of license: I tried to download vSphere 4U1 (I especially need vSphere Windows 7 Client), but after the connection and try to download the free version, I get a on a web page that says 'VMware vSphere evaluation expired' and "Ready to buy?" tab.

  True, I had downloaded the vSphere 4 in early August and this 60-day evaluation period has expired a long time ago. But due to the problems with vDR (itself known and many negative entry in the list) I have not yet decided on the version of vSphere, I need to buy... a lot of money at stake

  So: Is there a limit on all the free data center products that a registered user can download for "free trial"? I have a few new servers available for tests and did not want to go through the installation of vSphere 4 + update to v4 U1, especially since the laptop management runs Windows 7, where - according to me - vSphere Client and update manager will not work without some pretty nasty sounding hacks.

  Thanks for your answers,

  Thomas

  http://www.VMware.com/support/product-support/ESXi/

• ESXi 5/VMWare vSphere 5 tool Mgmt Essentials

  I got the upgrade of the v5 FREE ESXi from VMWare vSphere Essentials 5 hypervisor.  I'm looking for what we call the 'vCenter Management Console", which I'm supposed to have access with me purchase vSphere Essentials 5, to manage multiple servers within a single console ESXi and also have a GUI based ESXi management tool for updates to update my v5 ESXi servers.

  With the naming conventions wonderfully confusing of all the different productions of VMWare, I can't find anything with that name.  The closest element I can find reference only ESXi v4 and when I try to download, I gives me a warning that I am not allowed to download.

  Could someone shed some light on this topic for me so I can clarify what I'm looking for?  Still, it comes to a VMWare vSphere 5 Essential Kit that I just bought.

  Thank you

  Dave

  Yes, you could use an Oracke VM or VM VMware running under VMplayer or in the essential of vSphere environment - or you can manage ESXi and the individual instances servers using the client installed on your workstation vSphere with them having to use vCenter -

  VCenter integration in an AD environment is not a requirement it just makes managing easier users/groups in a large environment - you can actually have the server part of a workgroup and use groups the and users on the access - default server administrators locala groups is given administrator access to the environment of vcenetr -.

  With regard to updating a ESXi host, you do not need VMware Update Manager, it can be done using the CLI - you can update with software esxcli 5.0 ESXi hosts vib commands discussed in vSphere upgrade documentation included in the documentation of vSphere set 5.0. You cannot run the command vihostupdate against a 5.0 ESXi host.

  If you are looking for to deploy individual hosts with likited resources that, I would suggest deploythe free version of ESXi - weak positive points cost disadvantages: you need to manage each host individually and will be capped on memory - which I believe is 32 GB

  With the essentials, it will be more expensive, but you know be able to manage several servers ESXi to a place more depending on your license, you will be able to take advantage of VMware HA allowsing your environment to recover from a failure of the host, VMware DRS, which will ensure the delivery of resources to VMS in times of conflict and can back up the virtual machine with them affecting the performance of the virtual machine or access

• Upgrade free version of Essential Kit

  Hello

  Can I put my free ESXi installation to vSphere Essential Kit, or what I have to install it again.

  We head to the front.

  The answer to this is nice and simple. Apply the license key that will activate paying for features.

  You can build your first vCenter Server (if you do not have one) and then apply the keys to vCenter, makes it a little easier if there is more than one host.

• Very quick question on the free ESXi license

  Sorry this post as I have a related thread opened yet, but:

  Free ESXi 4.1 vSphere license allows access to San fiber channel?

  I ask because I am frustrated by is denied access to something that worked, and the only change I see is that I entered the license key last week. I spread the material, there must be setup somewhere.

  Again, I am really sorry to post a new thread, but I need a quick answer, I need this system in place and running as soon as possible!

  See you soon,.

  Gargravarr

  Yes - all access to storage etc will work always - it is only 'Advanced' features that are limited.

• The upgrade to ESXi 3.5

  I have an ESXi 3.5.0 Server and I am considering upgrading to VMware vSphere Hypervisor 4.1.

  -Is the good upgrade?

  -I can upgerade in place, leaving the VM on the server?

  Is there a document describing how to upgrade right?

  -As some of the VMS are business critical, how to eliminate or mitigate the risks of problems prossible during the upgrade process?

  Concerning

  Mario

  You can follow the upgrade guide:

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vSphere4/R41/vsp_41_upgrade_guide.PDF

  You can keep existing VMs, but a backup is suggested.

  A suggested path could be the first upgrade to 4.0 and 4.1:

  http://eddielublog.blogspot.com/2010/08/upgrade-VMware-ESXi-35-to-vSphere-41.html

  André

• To upgrade 4.1 Esxi hypervisor to vSphere 5 Essentials

  I am currently running the free hypervisor, version 4.1, on a single server with 3 virtual machines.

  We would like to run the Acronis vmProtect work that doesn´t on the hypervisor. To this end, we plan to upgrade to vSphere Essentials 5.

  It is possible to update without installing vCenter?

  Yes it is possible

  You can take a look at the upgrade to ESXi recommended 5.0

  and step by step instructions VMware: easy level 4.1 to 5.0 ESXi ESXi (upgrade using the ESXi 5 installation CD)

• 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

• Error after upgrade to ESXi 5 Update 1 on free version

  At all a ghettoVCBg2 got another run properly after the upgrade to ESXi 5u1 via vMA 5 when it's the free version?

  I have a couple of free machine and they are the only ones having problems. My verson licensed production work very well.

  The error I get on free machines is as follows:

  Failed to get vim_service - the session object is not initialized or not connected to the line /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/VMware/VICommon.pm 1654
  Perl came out with active threads:
  1 running and spare
  0 finished and spare
  0 running and detached

  I find autour and trying different solutions to simular errors (for example, by adding the debugging of CARP), but nothing works.

  None of the 1 post update fixes fixed either.

  ghettoVCB works very well on the free servers however.

  So, I'm curious if anyone has seen this problem?

  I guess that the reason is that ghettoVCB2 was built for the paid editions that allow write API access.

  There was some editions which do not restrict this access, as you can see in "Support of ESX/ESXi Version table" at http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9843. The initial version of ESXi 5.0 is / was one of them, considering that the update 1 is even more restrictive.

  André

• ESXi 4.1 to free ESXi 5.0 free upgrade

  I read here that the upgrade process is simple - just demarrer start on the CD, select upgrade and choose I want to preserve my existing VM.

  I only have one virtual machine on my ESXi server now, so this isn't too important.

  The procedure described above is correct for the * free * (5) version of ESXI?

  Thank you, as always.

  Mike Gallery

  It is a good blog talking about the free esxi 4 to 5 upgrade steps.

  http://blog.vmpros.nl/2011/07/13/VMware-easy-upgrade-ESXi-4-1-to-ESXi-5-0/

  Pete

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• Advice on the upgrade to ESXI 4.1.0 to 6

  I have ESXI 4.1.0 260247 that worked for about 5 years now as a champion.  My hard drives are becoming old and I need to upgrade my storage (currently raid 2 x 1 TB 1, need 2 TB of usable space) so I am looking to update my ESXI at the same time.  I'm a show making, software development, my needs are quite simple.  I have machines virtual linux for Jenkins, LAMP, nginx, svn, mysql and I have Windows VMs for Jenkins, MSSQL, versions of office to install testing.  The most great thing miss me with ESXI 4 is I would go an automatic weekly backups of my VM to my QNAP NAS.

  Essentials would be worth the money? I'm Canadian, so please consider I paid 32% more after the exchange of currencies.

  I'm not an experienced administrator, ESXI 4 was free for me problem since day 1.  If I replace all readers at the same time, would be a good upgrade path:

  1 export all as OVF of ESXI4 VMS

  2 replace the discs in Server

  3. installation of 6

  4 import OVF VM in ESXI 6

  Thanks in advance for the entry.

  I would backup all virtual machines to external storage, possible using https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html

  Update as needed. You will not be able to skip from 4.1 to 6.0. so a reinstall would be my preferred option.

  Restore VMs return. Note that if you use free ESXi then you probably need to restore files on networked storage and copy them back to the store to host data because free ESXI does not include an API for veeam to restore. https://forums.Veeam.com/VMware-vSphere-F24/question-about-free-ESXi-5-and-restore-job-failed-error-t13345.html

  Essentials is really cheap for what you get. You will be able to use the above correctly, because you then will licenses for the API. You probably want 2-3 hosts so that the benefits of vCenter you get with the license are worth. It is not really worth it for a single host unless you need these API etc.

• Assessment vs free ESXi

  Hello... I hope you can help, because I am pulling my hair out, running around in circles trying to understand this.  I know that VMWare would like to 'sell' things, but they announce a hypervisor VSphere/ESXi 5 'free '... HOW to get the free version - or at least a key to activate/register it?

  I went to http://www.vmware.com/go/get-free-esxi/ and follow the guests (I have both connected to an account, I got back to version 3.5 AND created a new job - both with the same result), got ESXi downloaded and installed, but I get a pop-up from the client saying that my assessment has 60 days to the left and click on a link to assign a license.  On using the link, we wonder again at connection, now that I am presented with a registration page.  After completing the registration page, I gives me information on my assessment.  I don't have listed in my VMWare license keys (although I've seen initially a key when first present with my download link)... only an assessment with links on EACH page on how to 'buy' VSphere.

  How my free VSphere become only a test and evaluation?  Where can I get a free license for VSphere and how to assign a free license to my VSphere host?

  Sorry for the frustration - I would really like to test the waters to implement VMWare to our datacenter upgrade, I've heard great things on this subject, but at this point what does say that Microsoft licensing is WAY easier than VMWare?

  Thank you!

  In the vSphere client, click on the server.  Go to the Configuration tab.  Choose "Licensed Features" (to the left of the pane, under 'Software').  Click on "Edit"... "(top right of the pane).

• Update ESXi 4 to VSphere essential Trial

  I'm a bit confused here and would appreciate your help. I have two computers ESXi 4 all together upward (through the help I've been out here).

  My next step will be to upgrade one (or two) of these ESXi 4 on VSphere Essentials servers so I can try

  various strategies of backup on them. I have it in mind to use Veritas Backup Exec on one to save the methods virtual hard on the other.

  Where I'm confused, how I will spend one or two of these computers to the 60 day trial of VSphere Essentials.

  1. I am downloading the VMWare VSphere evaluation software. My understanding is that it was really not necessary

  because all I had to do was get a license key for VSphere Essentials, put it in through the VSphere Client and voila! -J' would have a

  VSphere Essentials server for 60 days. When the 60 days has increased, the server would automatically return to free ESXi.

  2. I don't really have to do another installation of the VSphere demo software I download on my ESXi servers, I do? If I did I think that would blow my existing virtual.

  How does this work? Where can I get the keys, that I need to update my 4 Essentials ESXi servers? Or always do 'demos' here

  Go directly to the full version of VSphere?

  Thank you for your continued support!

  Mike Gallery

  Moving between the levels of license is just a matter of changing the license. There is no necessary relocations. For the trial version it is possible to move between the free under the license and Enterprise Plus by selecting without license in the configuration tab. Once the 60 days have passed, however, you will not be able to use the features of Enterprise Plus only the free hypervisor.