vMA - can I still use it?

I'm new on vSphere and I have my box of ESXi 4.1 operational. I have a beautiful VM little running CentOS 5 and was looking on cloning it so that I can I has implemented an Oracle RAC cluster without having to go through the install/update a second had been able to treat. Because I do not have vCenter or its access, I don't have access to the wizard of cloning. So I started to look for alternatives. I came across the family scripts vGhetto (http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9852) and there are a lot of great scripts to do everything from cloning, based on UPS stopped.

The first step seems to imply the deployment of vMA, which is pretty easy on the web. So this morning I started to read further and so that you can deploy certianly vMA with the free ESXi licesne, it seems it's sill, not considered to be "licensed" version of ESXi, and that all of the really cool features we can use vMA (backup management, graceful stops, cloning) still will not work without a full license you have paid.

If this is the case, is it really any purpose for the vMA deployment? Fine is an educational project, so I want to try everything I can to understand the best vmware architecture (DBA by profession, but as a DBA in the 21st century, it's a good idea to understand how virtualization and ESX (i) is what I see most often in the wild). I assumed that as secondary, is possible to do things that I mentioned without a license complete if indeed vGhetto scripts do not work in my case?

Thank you!

Licensing has nothing to do with the vMA, but how the API is exposed depending on licensing.

If you use any license other than the 'free' ESXi license, you have full read/write access to the vSphere API and vGhetto scripts use the vSphere SDK for Perl to interact with the vSphere API. This is true for PowerCLI, VI Java or any other vSphere SDK, which is governed by the license on the question if it is readonly which has the free license or full read/write.

Because you are using the free version of ESXi, you will be limited to only read operations, you still have access to the API, but you will not be able to make changes. You can of course use the vSphere Client, which will always give you a full access, but you will not be able to automate or perform tasks via the CLI/API

If all goes well, that clears up any confusion, vMA is just a convience as a packed device that you can download and use right away. vSphere SDK for Perl that is part of the installation of vCLI can be installed on Windows, Linux or Mac OSX.

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