Uppgrade free vSphere to vSphere Standard

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• Better route to abandon more Essentials to vSphere Standard?

  I currently have three licenses for the kit of Essentials more than 5.5 vSphere

  To add storage vMotion, I'll have to move to vSphere Standard.

  I understand that the vCenter Server of the essential kit differs from vCenter Server Standard, so in order to pass all my existing to vSphere Standard environment, I'll have to buy vCenter Server Standard and 18 processors for vSphere Standard licenses.

  Is there a way to upgrade for the transition to vCenter Server Standard or are customers essentially forced to start from scratch?

  If there is a way to upgrade, price different from zero?

  There was a post in early February on the displacement of most of the standard, but in this particular case, the organization already had vCenter Server Standard, so all that was needed was the CPU licenses.

  > The essential kit more allows you to use vMotion, but not Storage vMotion, so I can move my vm between hosts to you, but cannot move them between data warehouses.

  Yes and no. The Essentials most Kit includes no storage vMotion, but you can use "Change of host and data store" live migrate VM to other data warehouses. This is possible since vSphere 5.1 (see vMotion bug corrected in vCenter server 5.1.0a)

  André

• Essentials for vSphere Standard - correct license?

  We are running 3 x machines hosts vsphere 4.1 essentials connected to a server vCenter (not the essentials vcenter server) running standard. We know that if we improve these host machines we cannot be handled by our server vCenter (v5.5) due to a change of license and it is like not possible.

  
  After the execution of these 3 guests with Essentials, we now seek to introduce environmental vmotion and storage vmotion. Can you confirm for me that we just need to buy the right amount of vSphere Standard licenses?

  It doesn't seem to be an upgrade from Essentials to vSphere standard. Team VMware licenses have already recommended to talk to our partners and after that they recommend to purchase:

  VMware vSphere with operations management [Corporate - upgrading: VMware vSphere 5 Essentials to vSphere Operations Manag Std Acceleration Kit of 6 processors]

  It is also much more expensive and much more than necessary.  I believe that it is unnecessary to go this route because it is much more expensive than buying the vSphere licensing standards.

  Can anyone confirm that we just need to buy the right amount of vSphere Standard licenses in order to manage them with vCenter Server Standard to enable vmotion between these hosts?

  I understand that acceleration kits are grouped to be more profitable, but because you already have a license of vcenter standard you are right, you will need the correct number of vSphere ESXi licenses which is sold per CPU - so if your three hosts are dual cpu you will need 6 licenses

• MPIO, ALUA and Vsphere Standard Edition

  I'm having a hard time to give a sense of the differences in features between Vsphere standard Edition and enterprise Edition when it comes to storage.   In the comparison of the features he says that this standard does not support third-party plugins or MPIO.  But I know that at least, it supports MPIO basis because I have it running on one of my sites with ISCSI.    So I'm I wondered what exactly it does not support and more particularly wonder about MPIO on SAN FC who wants me to activate ALUA.

  Take a look at VMware KB: frequently asked Questions for the vStorage API for integration of the table that describes the functions available with VAAI.

  ALUA and the MPIO built-in will work regardless of the edition, you can simply use 3rd party software.

  André

• VMware vSphere Standard for ESXi 5.1 5 license

  Dear all,

  Can I use VMware vSphere Standard for ESXi 5.1.0 host 5 license? I use VMware vCenter Server Standard 5 for vSphere 5 license for vCenter server 5.1 but I'm not sure ESXi 5.1.0 host. Please advise.
  

  Rgds,

  Syairus

  Yes, it will work. The licenses are for version major 5.x, this includes minor versions.

  André

• vSphere Standard switch - how does the failover

  Hello

  I have a theory for you question VMware guru.  I have four ports on my ESXi host and I want to assure you that in the case of a link failure, network traffic gets moved to another link.  Currently, I have all four adapters marked as Active to balance traffic between the four ports to load.  My question is, what is the point of having an auxiliary card?  In the case of a failure of the link, is it a switchport not active failover to another active port?  If an active port can switch to another active port, why would you want never to define an interface in sleep mode, rather than use it for balancing traffic?

  Thanks for any idea in advance!

  -ToTheCloud

  OK, so the auxiliary card would be useful if I only had 3 ports and two switches vSphere Standard.  At this time, when a port to one of these switches would fail, I'll be able to have the one of these switches switch to auxiliary card (since you cannot have an active adapter on both switches at the same time)?

  Correct - if you had two vSwitches, each with a NIC card Assistant could only be assigned to a vSwitch both.

  Also, just to clarify, if I do not have all four active cards on the same vSwitch, if a link goes down, traffic would failover to another active adapter if I didn't have a correct map specified, auxiliary?

  Yes.

  Post edited by: vmroyale update based on a mistake (which is now bar-through)

• Max vm on vSphere Standard license

  Hi @ all,

  How vm´s can work on vSphere Standard Edition. Someone told me that I can run only 4 virtual machines with this license.

  Now I ve 5 vm´s running on my ESX Server Standard edition and how it works. do I have a problem of license with more than 4 vm´s on vSphere Standard?

  Is this true?

  I guess the 4 limited VM was linked with Microsoft licensing. With a Windows Server 2003 R2 (or higher) Enterprise license, you can run up to 4 virtual Windows Server instances on a single host.

  André

• feature vMotion, vSphere Standard 4.0 and 4.1

  Dear forum,

  I would like to ask a simple question...

  A customer to lay mines on vMotion in vSphere Standard edition.

  How they get this vMotion functionality. They are currently serving vsphere 4.0 U1.

  They need to upgrade the engine first (4.0 U1 to 4.1)?

  Thank you...

  PS:

  vSphere 4.0 Standard, the vMotion feature edition is not available.

  Yes, your customer must migrate to version 4.1 for the vmotion feature

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

• The upgrade of free vSphere vSphere Essentials Plus

  Can someone point me in the direction of the vSphere upgrade free to vSphere Essentials Plus? I'm relatively new to vSphere in the installation process.

  Yes, same procedure, but note that you will have a license key for version 4.x. If you have the license key for version 5.x and the host is version 4.x, you must upgrade your host to version 5.x or downgrade your license for version 4.x.

• Isolate the port on a vSphere standard switch traffic

  Hello

  I deploy an environment where I have a pool of 100 virtual machines that live on a switch standard vSphere isolated. The virtual machines to communicate with the rest of the world through a virtual double-NIC machine. This configuration does not work as expected, but I would go a little further and to isolate the connectivity network, such as each virtual machine can communicate with the system of double-NIC and not each other. The switch standard vSphere, the pool of 100 virtual machines are all located on the same VLAN and group ports. I spent some research time through documentation, but I did find a clean way to implement what I want. The best I can get to each of the virtual machines 100 puts their own VIRTUAL LAN, but it is ugly and will be difficult to maintain. Is there something easier that I missed?

  Thank you

  Steve

  PVLAN, but you will need the distributed virtual switch.

• Present the VLAN extra - vSphere Standard switch

  Hello everyone.

  I currently have two Exchange servers, both with NIC that sit on the same IP range. ('abc')

  I need to add the secondary NETWORK card to each server, but the need of the intellectual property of sit on one VLAN different than the existing boxes. ("xyz") (Redundancy is the goal here).

  How can I present the 'new' VLAN ("xyz") to our environment vSphere ESXi 5.0 so that it is an option when you add a standard switch, instead of only 'None (0)' or ' all (4095)?

  Thanks for the time.

  -Brandon

  First, network cards connected to your ESXi host, are in one vLAN specific or are they shared resources to allow several VLANS?

  If they are defined to a vLAN, they you have 2 choices.

  (1) add another 1-2 by ESXi host network cards and link them to the new vLAN.  Create a new portgroup to the new VLAN and add network cards to your VM (s) for this portgroup.

  (2) move your network team the TRUNK port settings and allow the two VLANS.  You then need to change your existing exchanges with the ID vLAN appropriate, including your management & storage trade.

  * These two options will probably require downtime, or migrate all virtual machines off the coast of the host to make the changes. **

  If your ports are currently configured TRUNK, then the network team comes to allow access to the new vlan and you must create a new portgroup for this new vlan.

  I hope this helps!

• vSphere Standard license 5.0

  Hello

  We run vSphere 5.0 with a standard license - to activate Storage vMotion which accompanies 5.1 do I have to upgrade the environment 5.1 or can I just ask a license from 5.1 to my environment?

  Thank you very much!!

  Hello

  You must install the environment (vCenter Server + ESXi hosts) software version 5.1. The license key will remain the same for all 5.X versions.

  Here is a link to vSphere 5.1 Upgrade Guide: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-51-upgrade-guide.pdf

  Concerning

• VSphere Standard license

  Hello

  Where can I get a Standard of Vsphere license of the trial

  Thank you
  

  Storage data protection API is available in any paid vSphere license. (Large company and the cheaper Kits Essentials for small SMB environments)

  Editions of big business:

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

  Kits of Essentials for SMEs:

  http://www.VMware.com/products/Datacenter-Virtualization/vSphere/small-business/compare-kits.html

  Concerning

• Vsphere Standard installation 5

  Hi all

  First time install ESX 5, had a few questions.

  We bought a standard license for Vsphere 5, with a single processor. A second host is bought at a date of ter for redundancy.

  The host and the VM is to place the server in the DMz - will be a G7 BL460c Blade Server with a blade of SAS storage.

  Issues related to the:

  • I am ok to accept all the default values for the installtion? I myself remember in previous custom versions of Partition sizes have been recommended)
  • What is the ESXi I need to install? the installation will run discs in reverse BL460.
  • Should I VLAN for the management of the DMZ NIC nic? or it will not make a difference?
  • How VM is recommended to be hosted on a single ESX host with a single processor and 32 GB of memory? that works best or is memory-cpu my limatation?

  If there is anything else that you feel I need to know before you make the installtion on Wednesday, please do not hesitate to comment.

  Thanks in advance.

  Yes the key will still work

  It is recommended to install the Important and critical fixes

  Normally it is all managed by MUV (VMware Update Manager),

  If you have just vCenter install VUM and do it there

  This looks like a single host with no vCenter deployment, so you can manually download patches here .

  Just look for ESXi 5 all Cat and Important.

  You can install the esxcli patches using vmroyaleguide. Click Guide

  Please allow points to useful/correct answers

• vSphere Standard: comments Max CPU

  We have a host ESX 4.0 with a standard license.  It has 2 processors quad core in it.

  I have a 64-bit RedHat Enterprise 5 VM client and want to assign all 8 processors.  But when I start it I get an error "virtual machine has 8 virtual processors, but the host supports only 4.

  I imagine that it must be something license, but I couldn't find the limit of 4 vCPU in the doc https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html comparison or pricing guide http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf

  What Miss me?

  Thank you

  Only companies outside license allows vSMP 8 channels.  Others take on max 4 vCPU.

  -KjB