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  Can anyone help to answer this question.  Thank you in advance.

  
  

  I have a valid license of VMware Workstation 9, can VMware Workstation and the VMplayer separately install on two computers and use them in business environment?

  The VMware Player delivered in the Installation of VMware Workstation is not separable from the installation of VMware Workstation or VMware Workstation license.  If you want to run VMware Player by itself then you must download the VMware Player installer, which installs only VMware Player not VMware Workstation.  You cannot cut files VMware Workstation installed between two systems.  So if you want to use it commercially you must buy a license of VMware Fusion!

  I hope that now this is clear enough for you to grab!

• VMware vSphere 4 licenses essential question and the number of processors

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  Is there a limitation on the maximum number of 4 cores on one physical processor that can or will be used by VMware vSphere 4.1 Essentials or there is a limitation on the number of 4 vCPU that can be assigned to a guest?

  I would like to know because if this is a limitation on the number of vCPU that can be assigned to a customer that would not be a problem because we have no guests in need of vCPU, then 2 more, but if this is a limitation on the number of cores that would be used by VMware vSphere Essentials, it would be a waste of money to buy a 6-Core ;-)

  Hello.

  2 taken with 3 guests, 6 hearts and SMP 4 lanes for virtual machines.

  These limitations are available at: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/small_business_editions_comparison.html

  Good luck!

• VMware View and MS Windows 7 License Manager

  I'm looking to install VMware View and use Windows 7 Ent or

  Pro as the guest operating system.

  What are the Microsoft Licensing options?

  Is the use of a server KMS, the best solution, or should I just

  use a key in the specification of customization, as I did with Windows XP?

  If you have a deployment of medium to high, I suggest to use a KMS server to validate the license. If you enter your MAK license and deploy several pools or in the pool even over and over again. each time Windows will activate using a new MAK license until they are all exhausted.

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• VMware View and vSphere/ESX4

  I never tested with VMware View in any installation ESX so please forgive my ignorance on the subject.

  What I've read, I know that VMware View is not currently supported under vSphere but it should be later in the year.

  My question is: is it possible to run VMware View in vSphere/ESX4 and y at - it not crash you have experienced? I have a few clients who want to start a project with the product, but I'm tired to sell it to them without knowing if it is possible to run in vSphere or not.

  As I understand it, VMware View is just a series of virtual machines (View Manager for the management) and several other virtual machines for delivery of operating system invited to end users, so I think its possible to run, just not supported.

  Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thank you.

  jjohnston1127 wrote:

  Thanks for the reply.

  Exactly how desktop computers are delivered to the end user? They give you a connection with the VI Client to vCenter and displays the available machines, they control?

  Display Client, Thin Client or View Portal (browser). Basically, we use RDP as the main Protocol for now (PCoverIP is the slate and many talked of the future Protocol). In simple terms, us tie in with the AD. The user connects by using one of the methods mentioned. The broker for connections check the user/pass, see what desktop computers - if any - they have right to and presents this list to the user. The user selects and then, if the SSO is enabled, records in their office environment. They have several desktop computers and screens (up to 4) if necessary.

  When the view is supported for vSphere and released, you know / think it will be difficult to migrate from individual offices shared through the clones related, or computers is - same not possible?

  God I hope not. For now, I have no idea, but I imagine they would create some sort of upgrade. View Manager is nothing else than a web application.

  I'm sure I think other issues later, but I can review the product documentation to answer most of them. I wanted to just grab a little better quickly because I have an appointment in an hour or two with a client

  Documentation has made a huge difference and give you a better idea of how this works.

  You want to make a difference in the future of VMware products? Feature to ask your ideas ( http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/feature.html )!

• VMware DRS and VMware HA

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• End of data collection on a single cluster other clusters in vRA6.2

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  I have 16 laptops that I use for the safety tests.  They must be wiped out and reconfigured after business travel.

  We have been under XP SP3 so far, but we must move on to Vista.  Professional Vista licenses are available from our KMS on the field (that I do not have access to), but we do not know how this will all work together.

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• VMware tools and host of virtual hardware upgrade process

  We currently have 8 guests esx4 we plan to upgrade to esxi5.  Our downtime window is relatively low.  We should have sufficient time to upgrade all hosts, but I'm not so sure that we will be able to get all the vm tools and equipment as well updated.  Is there a common question VMs on the older virtual hardware and vm versions tools until our next maintenance window?

  Or would it be best to try to get half of the hosts and all the computers upgraded this time and the other half next time?  We have not all hosts the value automatically vmotion machines so that they remain in place unless you have an accident.  In addition, in this scenario is any problem to launch half esx4 and the other half to esxi5?

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  Steve Hrabak

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  http://www.VMware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vSphere-ESX-vCenter-Server-50-new-features.html

  y at - it no problem running esx4 half and half to esxi5

  No worries there, too.  The only thing that you must do is upgrade to VMFS5.  The bed and breakfast vSphere5 no cannot be able to see a LUN VMFS5, but everyone can see and use a LUN VMFS3

• VMware ESXi 5 licenses

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  Once more the RAM on certain hosts would be awesome, and of course Central magagment would be great.

  I found the key packs, like right now THAT HA no is not essential - VMware vSphere Essentials Kit would suffice - offers more RAM, centralized management, but only for 3 guests.

  Seems I need centralized management for multiple hosts I choose Standard Kit of acceleration? But in this case, Miss me the ability to upgrade RAM - or not with the terms in the Kit of Essentials and is also much more expensive...

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  Could someone give advice on this issue?

  Kind regards

  ... where your I find some information?

  In the document of pricing and licenses white at http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf (page 7)

  .. vCenter Server Standard begins from 6000 USD non-larger than 32 GB RAM... as well as other licenses...

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• VMWare Player and VLAN

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• Upgrade VMware tools and hardware on vSphere

  Hello

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  Hello.

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  The first link is-old vMotion applies to Virtual Center 1.3 and ESX2.

  "The virtual machine configuration file should not reside on a VMFS located on the shared data store '... This applies to 2 ESX hosts. At the time, the virtual machine configuration (.vmx) file was located locally on the ESX host, run the virtual machine in/home/default vmware...  This file have been moved to the local directory on the target host during vMotion...

  This was changed to ESX3, who, with Virtual Center 2, introduced also HA...

  For HA to work all the VM files must reside on the shared storage. This makes all slender VM files available to other hosts of clusters at all times. (difficult to extract different files from a host of dead).

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