VCenter Server (standard) useful with ESXi is free?

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• vCenter Server Standard mode with multiple vCenter Essentials?

  The company that I work began to expand in other countries and with that comes from the need to manage servers across data centers. Most locations have only 1 or 2 servers and not shared storage, but HQ has 3 servers on each of 2 data centers. DR site has a storage server acting as a target iSCSI (FreeNAS trial) HP.

  If I wear Essentials on these separate locations now, can I later (when the budget releases) buy a Standard license for vCenter Server and then link them?

  Or the Essentials version won't work in bound Mode?

  If I wear Essentials on these separate locations now, can I later (when the budget releases) buy a Standard license for vCenter Server and then link them?

  Yes

  Or the Essentials version won't work in bound Mode?

  No, you must have vCenter Standard for work-related modes

• While add ESXi 6 existing hosts, vcenter server 5 std and esxi host 6 cann't add to AD

  Hello

  Greetings. !

  We have seen vCloude 5 Enterprise edition and vCenter Server Standard 5.5

  at the moment all my existing hosts ESXi 5.1 are managing through vCenter Server Standard 5, now recently we buy vCloude 6 Enterprise edition

  (1) I found the following problems all add ESXi 6 hosts (VMware ESXi - 6.0.0 - Update1-3380124- HPE) to AD sales thru of sphere, it is read error.

  

  I have already set up network, DNS, make sure firewall ports, Ping - are all OK.

  (2) Moreover, while trying to create new CD, add the cluster, then add hosts, is giving following error.

  

  I can add new Hosts 06 ESXi Existing vCenter Server 5.5 Standard or I have to buy updated additional license for vcenter server 5 std vcenter 6 standard / enterprise.

  Thanks in advance.

  ESXi 6 cannot be managed by vCenter 5.5 or earlier.

  He needs a same version or higher of vCenter server.

• can restore us a vcenter Server inventory using vpxd.cfg only

  can restore us a vcenter Server inventory using vpxd.cfg only

  problem: restoring Vcenter server using vpxd.cfg file only

  No, you can't, vCenter inventory information is saved in vCenter database and not in vpxd.cfg.

  vpxd.cfg is the only configuration file for vCenter

• Save multiple vCenter Server 5.1 with vSphere WebClient 5.1

  How to save multiple vCenter Server 5.1 with vSphere WebClient 5.1?

  simple enough... on your vCenter > https://localhost:9443 / admin-app / > registry vCenter Server... that's all

  Greetings from Munich, Ralf

• Advice of external storage for use with ESXi 3.5 (free)

  I'm under ESXi 3.5 (free) on a server with internal storage.  I would buy external storage and switch my VM to it.  The virtual machines that I have running on the server are not used very often, so I don't want to put a lot in it.  Can anyone recommend an external SAN/NAS storage device that would work with ESXi 3.5 (free)?  I'm looking for maybe 500 GB - 1 TB connected to the network via Ethernet.

  Less than the price of Iomega devices (the ~ $300 model) are sold to a group of work so not really high performance. If you find that this performance was not acceptable, you'd have no way to improve the system.

  I would like to use your existing NAS NFS features. If this does not work out, you can always go for something with more umph.

  If it is a lab test the Iomega should be fine. If it has an environment that can grow in size requirements and performance over time, you might want to try to build a more powerful Openfiler SAN/NAS.

  First try your existing infrastructure.

• Looking for advice on my lab with ESXi 5 free

  Hi all

  I would like to know if I need a license to just virtualize machines in my scenario.

  My goals:

  • All virtualized Machines, I will not use virtualization features, I want just the availability virtualize my machines, I don't care management or vmotion. I know that in a production environment is not a good practice, but like I said, I just want a maximum of my machines.

  Here I show my laboratory structure:

  Servers:

  • I have 2 servers with the following configuration:
    • Intel Xeon 2630 V2
    • Motherboard S2600CP2
    • 64 GB OF RAM
    • 4 1 TB HDs
    • 1 SSD 240 GB HD
    • 2 10/100/1000 integrated network in the motherboard cards
      
  • I have 1 server with the following configuration:
    • Intel Xeon 1356 - E5 07v2V2 24
    • Card mother Intel S2400SC2
    • 64 GB OF RAM
    • HD 1 TB
    • 2 10/100/1000 integrated network in the motherboard cards

  Switches

  All the switches used will be of Juniper Networks

  • Thorns:
    • following 2 switches with port configuration:
      • 24 ports QSFP +.
  • Leafs
    
    • 3 following switches with port configuration:
      • 48 SFP / SFP ports +.
      • 2 uplinks QSFP + to connect on thorns switches

  You can see a summary of my lab demonstration at the laboratory of attached file '. '. PNG ".

  My doubts:

  • Will it take any license of vmware to achieve what I want, even though I won't use it all functionality of virtualization, I want just the infrastructure. I read this link free virtualization with VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) | United States of America and I think I won't have a problem... What do you think??? Thank you.

  WARNING: This is not legal advise and you're not my client. My TAM has confirmed that you can use unlimited ESXi licenses for your current setup without any problems. Please login to the portal of VMware and ask your ESXi unlimited licenses. Don't forget that you will need licenses paid if in the future you decide to deploy vCenter to manage these hosts and use of advanced features such as HA, vMotion. Feel free to ask more questions.

• vSphere license without vCenter Server Standard

  Hello

  I have ESXi (free licenses) servers. I want to make snapshots regualar usin the CLI to a virtual machine. This is not possible with the free version. Is it possible to buy a vSphere Standard edition license to activate these features, without vCenter Server?

  Thank you.

  The best way to "unlock" the CLI is to get Essentials edition. No need to setup the vCenter server.

  See "Configuration-CLI-Based" in http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015000

  André

• Migrate from vCenter Server again HW with Cisco 1000v in environment

  I have a cluster 13 hosts ESXi 4.1 using a cisco 1kv currently and you want to move the vcenter server to a new host.  I anticipate using the same database as the existing host and IP.  Having the 1kv cisco in the environment will prevent simply connecting me the new instance of an existing database (after powering down the first instance) or it will create no additional steps in the process?

  As long as you manage the server vCenter and db, you should be fine.  You will encounter problems if you change these, like the 1KV, is ultimately always a dvSwitch, associated with the server vcenter himself.  Thus, while you plan to move to new hardware, your vCenter is still considered to be the old vcenter, otherwise, you will encounter problems.

  Hope that makes sense.

  -KjB

• VCenter server by using domain ID and password to login

  Hello

  I wanted to connect to Vcenter server via powercli but its always takes my default windows credentials when I connect using Connect-VIServer-vcenter01 Server rather than my domain ID and the password. My credentials for vcenter server is different from the Windows credentials. Please let me know the command for the VI login server, by using the credentials of domain.

  Thank you

  vmk2014

  Cannot connect you with:

  to connect-viserver Vcenter01.domain.bla - user domain\user - pass the password

• Errors in the charge installing vcenter Server 5.5 with respect to the SQL database

  I do a new install of vCenter Server 5.5 on a new Windows 2008 R2 server. The database for this facility is pointing at a 32-bit Windows 2003 SP2 server. I installed SQL Native Client 10.0 on server vCenter Server 64-bit, and then I could make my DSN ODBC 64-bit connection. The vCenter Server install could very well recognize it, but after the installation got going he wrong on the database with the following error:

  Error 25003.Setup cannot create vCenter Server repository. The main reasons for this failure are:

  -The database is installed using insensitive case.

  -The database is remote and the client database version does not match the database version. If this problem continues to persist, see KB 1003960 for further assistance.

  Well, I know that the version of the client and the version of database do not match. SQL native client on the sql server is 9.00.5000.00 and the version on the server vCenter Server is 10.50.1600.1.

  I know that this version of vCenter is compatible with an installation of 32-bit sql server 2005 on a 32-bit server, 2003.

  I am not familiar too if they want upgrade me sql native client on the sql server, but is not compatible with the version of sql server on this server and there are several database for other applications on this server, so I don't want to jump into something like that.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you.

  I install the native client SQL 2005 and give a shot.

• vCenter server is down and esxi server db server hosting is due

  Hello vmware experts,

  I hope that you will be able to help me with this problem. Suddenly our vcenter server fails. I discovered that the vcenter Server database server is down. When I look back, the esxi itself host is having a problem.

  I already rebooted the esxi. I tried to connect to this host again via vsphere client and at first, he says that it takes too much time to respond (this is the reason for the way I know that the host has a problem) then I restarted the console management officer. This time I was able to connect to the client via vsphere esxi host. Unfortunately, all virtual machines are showing unknown.

  assuming that you have shared stored, you can always make a note of what the VCDB VM runs on (even if the guests are unkknow).  To connect to a different host, browse the shared data store and find the VCDB VM, there right click on the .vmx file and add to the inventory.  Then turn the VCDB VM.  You can do the same if your vCenter host is a virtual computer.  Once you get the two VM added to the inventory and power, you will find that things are a little easier to troubleshoot.

• Can be used with ESXi 4.0 HP system management tool?

  Hello

  I'm installing ESXi 4.0 on HP DL380 G4 server and I was wondering if the management of the HP tool system can be installed along side the hypervisor, so I can remotely check the condition of the equipment of the machine.

  Anyone know if this is possible?

  Thank you

  I had little experience with HP SIM, it's been a while. So with ESXi, there is no agent that runs on the host computer, it uses the CIM (Common Interface Management) which is an API that can monitor the hardware and return this information to tell your server HP SIM. For the configuration and use, I recommend looking at HP and the involvement of the HP documents. If you have installed ESXi HP image, then from the point of view host you should be good. You must later have your SIM Server talk to host ESXi and sure he monitors the components you want and alert on it, etc.

  Here are a few articles around ESXi and CIM blog:

  http://blogs.VMware.com/ESXi/2010/04/hardware-health-monitoring-via-CIM.html

  http://blogs.VMware.com/ESXi/2010/05/hardware-health-monitoring-via-CIM-part-2.html

  http://blogs.VMware.com/ESXi/2010/05/hardware-health-monitoring-via-CIM-part-3.html

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• VCenter Server service stopped with the error service special 2 (0x2)

  Hello

  I installed vCenter Server 2.5 5 update on the WIN2003 SP2 server, but after reboot I get this error:

  Event type: error

  Event source: Service Control Manager

  Event category: no

  Event ID: 7024

  Date: 25.09.2009

  Time: 09:19:43

  User: n/a

  Computer: VCSERVER

  Description:

  The VMware VirtualCenter Server service stopped with the error service special 2 (0x2).

  and I can't connect using VMware Infrastructure Client.

  Follow the pdf file and you will be fine.

• How to change the config of vCenter Server Appliance (5.5) ESXi host vm? [Solved]

  I want to enable (set to true) memoryHotAddEnabled and cpuHotAddEnabled on the vCenter Server Appliance.

  I can't the powerCLI user because he needs a vCenter Server Appliance to connect to (right?) and to allow HotAdd of the virtual machine must be turned off.

  For anyone wondering, the best way to do this is to connect the ESXi host via vSphere Client, turn off the VM vCenter and update the configuration in this way.