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• 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

• Foundation vCenter license question

  There are four servers, that we want to use as a vSphere ESXi hosts.

  VMWare vSphere Advanced Acceleration Kit (6 CPU) license includes vCenter Foundation licenses which supports up to three ESX host. What happens if we add a fourth ESXi host (if that's even possible)?

  Would it always be included with the other three, except with features like 'HA/VMotion"unavailable etc.?

  Silly question, but both of my dealers give me different answers.

  Thank you

  you get an error something like "insufficient license to...." "When you try to add the host fourth to your inventory of Foundation.

• vCenter Expansion Design Question

  Hi all

  
  Currently, I have a relatively small environment with 4 guests in our location of companies in the United States and two guests to a second place in Europe.  I find that the number of virtual machines running in our environment Europe develops more and more.  I've been actively weighing the merits of adding a vCenter Server Appliance to our environment in Europe.  I have a few questions which I hope are simple which you can help with.  If you experience of the best that I look at the documentation for my answers, links to documentation would be very useful!

  1. If I add a vCenter Server Appliance to our VMWare Cluster in Europe, it connects to the database of vCenter running in our business location?  Alternatively, the vCenter device would simply manage the cluster in our European office location?
  2. If the answer to 1 above is that the device will manage vCenter only clusters in Europe, does that mean that I will be able to see an environment at a time when I opened my vSphere client?
  3. Require the device vCenter vCenter another license?

  This will be it.  Thanks in advance for your advice!

  
  S

  Hi Sean,.

  If I add a vCenter Server Appliance to our VMWare Cluster in Europe, it connects to the database of vCenter running in our business location?  Alternatively, the vCenter device would simply manage the cluster in our European office location?

  vCSA comes with a database (vpostgres) built-in and you can also link it with externam oracle DB (MSSQL is not supported). And NO, he won't already existing DB.

  If the answer to 1 above is that the device will manage vCenter only clusters in Europe, does that mean that I will be able to see an environment at a time when I opened my vSphere client?

  Yes, you need to connect individually as related modes is not supported on vCSA.

  Require the device vCenter vCenter another license?

  VCSA Yes you have to purchase another license to manage the two hosts.

• Unity double switch integration - licensing question unity 4.0 (3)

  Unity double switch integration - licensing question unity 4.0 (3)

  The unit was sold as a single IP integration. My client needs Dual Switch with an Ericsson PBX. I received the license key of ORC, and I opened a folder of TAC.

  TAC said that the license file will not allow installation double switch integration. The Cisco SE on the account indicates that the license key will allow me to make the integration of the double switch.

  Who is right? I heard that the moderator here has all the answers :)

  The is correct. Any customer with a license 4.0 can do double switch. You don't need a special permit.

  Thank you

  Keith

• question of vCenter edition license + distributed switch

  Hello

  I want to clarifiy on vCenter license I have and what is it supposed to cover.

  Background:

  I bought the VI3 VirtualCenter license company a year ago. I upgraded the server vCenter vSphere4 a few weeks ago, and apply the code key that I found in my account on VMware.com. Up to present, so good, but he says my license VI3 VC has been converted with vSphere Standard.

  The ESX servers are 4.0 enterprise.

  -In looking at vsphere_pricing.pdf it seems now I have many features available, they are offered as advanced or Enterprise editions.

  In the table below, I did few features "BOLD" I see clearly available and who are supposed to be higher than the standard packages.

  Thus my confusion is - what license actually did I? Standard, as it says in the vCenter or higher license tab since obviously there are available features, which should not be in the standard?

  vSphere Standard includes: • VMware ESXi and VMware ESX (choice of the time of the deployment) 2 • VMware vStorage VMFS • Four-way virtual SMP • VMware vCenter Server Agent • VMware vStorage API / VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) • VMware vCenter Update Manager • VMware HA • VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning

  vSphere Advanced includes: • VMware ESXi and VMware ESX (choice of the time of the deployment) • VMware vStorage VMFS • Four-way virtual SMP • VMware vCenter Server Agent • VMware vStorage API / VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) • VMware vCenter Update Manager • VMware High Availability (HA) • VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning • VMware VMotion • VMware hot add • VMware Fault Tolerance

  • VMware Data Recovery

  • VMware vShield Zones

  vSphere Enterprise includes:

  • VMware ESXi and VMware ESX (choice of the time of the deployment)

  • VMware vStorage VMFS

  • Four-way virtual SMP

  • VMware vCenter Server Agent

  • VMware vStorage API / VCB

  • VMware vCenter Update Manager

  * • VMware HA *.

  • VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning

  • VMware VMotion

  • VMware hot add

  • VMware Fault Tolerance

  • VMware Data Recovery

  • VMware vShield Zones

  * • VMware Storage VMotion *.

  • VMware DRS

  • VMware DPM

  vSphere Enterprise Plus includes:

  • VMware ESXi and VMware ESX (choice of the time of the deployment)

  • VMware vStorage VMFS

  • Eight-way virtual SMP

  • VMware vCenter Server Agent

  • VMware vStorage API / VCB

  • VMware vCenter Update Manager

  * • VMware HA *.

  • VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning

  • VMware VMotion

  • VMware hot add

  • VMware Fault Tolerance

  • VMware Data Recovery

  • VMware vShield Zones

  • VMware Storage VMotion

  • VMware DRS

  • VMware DPM

  • VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch

  • VMware Host Profiles

  Now the 2nd question (maybe I should have separated these, but I feel somehow it can be bound to the first)-when I create a distributed switch, the tab "hosts" is empty. I right click and select "add the host to the virtual switch distributed", but even once it gives me a window with no host has chosen.

  Is a licensing issue or config problem?

  If you have company VI3 then he improved to vSphere Enterprise.  And according to the characteristics you describe below, it looks like Enterprise license, that's what is activated in vCenter.  If you click on licenses in vCenter (Home\Administration\Licensing), see your Enterprise vSphere licenses?

  Regarding distributed switches, this option is available in vSphere Enterprise Plus then you will not be able to use. If you need the functionality of Enterprise Plus there is a promotion running until December 15, which allows you to update your enterprise license to Enterprise Plus licenses for a significant discount.  You should talk with your dealer on this subject if you are interested...

• vCenter Server Evaluation license questions

  Hello

  I just downloaded and installed vCenter Server assessment. When I log on to the server vCenter via vSphere client and you try to add the host and the vm I get the message that my evaluation license has expired, but according to vMware he does not expire until December 2011.

  I checked the host for the configuration of the date and time, and that's okay.

  If it helps, I host esxi5 installed on a server and have created two esxi5 vm as well as three windows vm operating system.

  I appreciate any help on this.

  See you soon

  Chris

  Hi Chris

  The host usually has a Date in the past after installation. If you had a wrong date on the host to the (first) initial priming the vCenter device start-up of the device with the wrong date "BIOS" of the host. after correction of the Date do not help the license number of the trial of fixation.

  Conclusion: delete the vCenter device, check the Date and time of the ESXi host setting and deploy the vCenter device again. If now the device starts the first time the 60-day trial works as expected.

  Good luck!

  Concerning

  Ivo

• vCenter Update Manager license question

  What VCenter update Manager licensed separately vcenter Server, or is it included?

  Thank you!

  VUM is included in the vCenter license in all versions, for more details, take a look at the vSphere Editions - http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

• License question - do need me a VSAN license for all hosts in a cluster?

  I have a 6 host cluster exist using the VSphere Essentials Plus package with a single server VCenter. Can I buy x VSAN 3 licenses, for example to add the storage to the 3 hosts I have install the VSAN license on and access the VSAN of the 3 other hosts in the cluster data store? (Assuming only 1 CPU for each host.)

  Thank you!

  Hi Daniel,.

  Since Virtual SAN is activated at the level of a cluster, all cluster hosts can consume storage since the virtual SAN data store regardless of how many guests contribute to storage. So to answer your question, you need all 6 hosts in your cluster license, even though only 3 of them contributed storage.

  Also note that the licenses are per CPU so in your scenario if each host has 2 CPUs, you need a total of 12 CPU licenses. I hope this helps.

  Chris

• 3.5 to 5.0 ESX license question

  Hi people,

  First of all I apologize for asking a question that is probably buried in a document from somewhere. I'm just my feet wet with VMware and my search-fu skills are still weak in the world of the VM.

  In any case, I'm going to spend a few 2003 VM ESX 3.5 on a our new vCenter infrastructure using the migration tool, (which is a huge help also). Use of the VM 3.5 a license server dedicated, who retired as well as the older ESX servers. So my question is I meet any license "traps" when I start to raise the newly converted virtual machine? I hope that they will at request of licenses for vCenter 5 but I know that licenses are managed differently now. Will it move all files from the old license server and plug them vCenter?

  Other pitfalls I should be aware? I decided to skip the SYSPREP files until I get a better handle on this process. Thanks in advance!

  If your just bring for guests, there will be no license problems.  Licenses are applied to the ESXi host, not the guests.  Ask you manage 3.5 hosts in vCenter5?

  Don't forget, to leave the vHardware for the VI3 guests at 4.  When the conversion is completed, upgrade the VMware first, and then the virtual hardware tools.

• vSphere/ESXi licensing questions

  I have improved my Foundation 2.5 Server vCenter to vSphere 4.0. The Foundation Server managed a single host VMware ESXi 3.5. After I updated, I added a HP ESXi 4.0 host. ESXi 3.5 host gets its license to a central license server. ESXi 4.0 host has a 60-day evaluation license. I looked at the license for the HP ESXi host tab and noticed that the only licensing option is to enter a key. My first question is, ' is it possible to use a centralized with vSphere 4.0 and ESXi 4.0 license server? I downloaded the distribution for the ESXi 4.0 HP host so that I can get for my HP hardware monitoring agents. I have to go back to HP to get a key for this host?

  Thank you

  Greg

  The license server is necessary unless you continue to use 3.5 hosts.

  ESXi 4 can be a free license - sign up for vmware for a free license code - but it can then be managed from vCentreServer, only the direct vSphereClient, which has characteristics of low-cut.  Having said that there are many uses for the features single and manage only one host at a time by the customer.

  Please aware points to any useful answer.

• Student license question

  Hey guys,.

  Just a quick question on Labview student of license. I have the 2010 student software package and I was wondering if its possible to install in on a desktop and laptop at the same time with the same license.

  All the best,

  Tom

  The general license contract should have been included with LabVIEW software. If you don't, you can read it here: http://www.ni.com/legal/license. For the Student Edition license you can install it on 3 computers. It's the same as a regular license "named" for the edition of non-students of LabVIEW.

• VDI licensing

  Hello, I recently woke up Windows Server R2 VDI host 2012. I have 5 users test currently, they use Windows 7 Enterprise for each workstation.  They are all access to the VDI server within the company at the present time.

  With regard to the licenses of the SA, VDA, client access licenses remote can be confusing.

  If I buy the VDA licenses for them, the way I read some FAQ I shouldn't away from CAL, is that correct, or I read incorrectly?

  This issue is beyond the scope of this site (for consumers) and to be sure, you get the best (and fastest) reply, we have to ask either on Technet (for IT Pro) or MSDN (for developers)

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• Upgarde Terminal CAL license question!

  Hi Tech team,

  I have a degree of CLIENT Terminal Server in addition to 50 users access licenses in windows 2003 std Edition. I have the w2k3 upgrded to win 2012 license terminal client access licenses it worked normally for more than 120 days. But I try to connect the RDP, its shows error connections. "

  Thank you

  VARUN

  Hello

  Post your question in the TechNet Server Forums, as your question kindly is beyond the scope of these Forums.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?category=WindowsServer

  See you soon.

• The family pack license question

  I brought the family pack and installed the 32 bit on one of my computers.  But I can change my mind and want to go to 64-bit in a couple of weeks after I receive a problem or two fixed. Besides all the obvious problems with going from 32 to 64.  SE coward a license by installing two different versions on the same computer?

  Hi Jer1177,

  Thanks for posting. You can install the 64-bit without any problems, as long as your 32 bit OS is uninstalled. If you run no activation questions use the phone activation and you can enable by this means.

  I hope this helps! Shawn - Support Engineer - MCP, MCDST
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