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• License for vSphere Essentials 6, more

  Hello

  We have a client vSphere Essentials 5, more. If the customer wants to upgrade to version 6, they should buy some sort of license?

  I had a look at the my.vmware account, but could not see any version 6 it.

  / R

  Andreas

  If you have a Support and subscription current and active contract customer, you can upgrade to the new version free of charge.

  VMware KB: How to upgrade license keys in my VMware

• Upgrade infrastructure vSphere Essentials Plus 5.0

  I need to upgrade an infrastructure of VMware vSphere Essentials Plus 5.0 2 nodes of ESXi 5.0 and Windows server 2008 R2 based vCenter (virtual).

  I want to upgrade to vSphere 5.5 U2.

  Can I use the standard VMware CD to upgrade the host or vCenter or should I use Essentials more specific CD?

  Based on what I saw on KB 2057795 I should update the vCenter first, ESXi nodes later.

  Can I upgrade from 5.0 to 5.5 U2 or should I perform any intermediate task?

  Is the update process, I need to run described anywhere?

  Concerning

  Marius

  Can I use the standard VMware CD to upgrade the host or vCenter or should I use Essentials more specific CD?

  There is no difference between the installation media... the same ISO can be used for all editions of vSphere/vCenter.

  Based on what I saw on KB 2057795 I should update the vCenter first, ESXi nodes later.

  Yes, it is in order, all first the vCenter Server and vSphere ESXi hosts.

  Can I upgrade from 5.0 to 5.5 U2 or should I perform any intermediate task?

  You can go directly to version 5.5 Update 2, but for vSphere, ESXi hosts don't forget to check the HCL first just to make sure that your host supports version 5.5 Update 2.

  Is the update process, I need to run described anywhere?

  The following KB articles will guide you:

  VMware KB: Upgrading recommended vcenter Server 5.5

  VMware KB: Installation or upgrade to ESXi 5.5 best practices

• VMware vSphere Essentials 5 - Dell Build

  We bought a kit "VMware vSphere Essentials. We would like to install the latest version of VMware (5.5.0 update 2) on our Dell PowerEdge 630. Is there an .iso of generation custom Dell we can use?

  Thanks for your help.

  Hello

  It is available on the DELL Web site:

  http://www.Dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=YGH6K

• VMWare vSphere Essentials Plus Kit

  My apologies in advance if this is posted in the wrong place - I'm going round and round, trying to find answers and appropriate to place.

  I have reflected on vSphere Essentials Plus Kit for 3 guests and just have a few questions.

  (1) the limitation specified 2 CPUs.  Does mean physical cores?  For example, I currently have a small number of virtual machines running on a HP DL360 G5 which has processor Xeon.  ESXi is reported as 2, but 8 cores.  So in this example VMWare will consider this 2 CPU or 8 CPU? (I realize that this material is not compatible with vSphere V5, but I'd be curious to understand the principle of limitation)

  (2) is in any way to migrate to ESXi 4.1 vSphere Essentials Plus Kit (which I suppose is 5.1?) because it would take me a hardware and software upgrade.  Or am I better implementation of a new system and use something like vCenter Converter to move virtual machines?

  (3) is there such a thing as a vSphere Essentials Plus Kit evaluation?  If this is not the case, how can I do for my test environment.  I don't want to invest in a new hardware/software, if for some reason any that does not work for me

  I'm looking to move to ESXi for reasons of redundancy and reslience.  I have only 1 ESXi box run currently with about 6 VM I'm not a major user and I think that more Kit Essentials fits the Bill on all the rest.

  Thanks in advance for your comments and advice.

  
  Paul

  vSphere supports different types of storage systems (NAS, iSCSI, FC,...). For a complete list of what is supported, please look at http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl

  André

• VSphere Essentials Bundle renewed client - cannot find license key 5.1

  Hello

  At MyVMware, I can see our own business license keys and also my costomer license keys. How ever I can not understand how to 'Add' or 'upgrade' or 'renew' or what do I purchaced license to find 5.1 vSphere license keys to my client. Can I get 4.1 only license keys there.

  Also in MyVMware super user of the client has bad emaild address - no e-mail at all such-domain.

  The licenses ordered (new) are:

  Subscription only for VMware vSphere Essentials Bundle for 1 year	VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Bundle for 3 guests (Max 2 processors per host) and 6 cores per processor	1	31 MAY 2012	19-SEP-2015
  Subscription only for VMware vSphere Essentials Bundle for 1 year	VMware vSphere 5 Essentials for 1 processor	6	31 MAY 2012	19-SEP-2013
  Subscription only for VMware vSphere Essentials Bundle for 1 year	VMware vCenter Server 5 Essentials for vSphere	1	31 MAY 2012	19-SEP-2013

  
  What can I do? VMware host the client complains that I need to provide the license key.

  Thank you

  Juha

  I would recommend you open a support case license with VMware (from the portal of my VMware) on behalf of your client and explain what you see now and how it is supposed to look like. Provide details regarding the purchase of renewals (no matter what email address on the order form of renewal might be important).

  From my experience, licenses support is extremely helpful and I am sure that they will be able to get it straightened up in no time.

  André

• vSphere Essentials Plus 5

  Afternoon people

  I have a client that I visited the other day and they decided to implement VMWARE ESX 4.1 in their environment, they use the following

  3 x ESX host servers

  1 x vCentre

  DRS

  2 x iSCSI without

  18 x Virtual Machines

  They have installed this as a POC on trial, somehow, they decided to P2V all their live servers in the closed ESX and are now their operational infrastructure. The trial license will expire in 2 weeks and I suggested that they buy vSphere Essentials 5, more than it supports only up to 3 guests complete with DRS which is what they use. My question is the license that is provided by VMWARE buying easily transposable to the current configuration without the need to upgrade all systems? The important thing is now that they can continue their VMs operating system.

  Thank you very much

  Yes - you will just need to apply the license on the vCenter server and they will be approved for essentials Plus-noreinstall rwequired -.

• vSphere 5, vCSA, View Manager and Secure Gateway

  Hello world

  I need some advice...

  
  

  A new vSphere infrastructure situation 5:

  3 HP Proliant server, each connected via iSCSI to external storage
  VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit 5 (used for the server VM) main virtualization infrastructure
  VMware View 5 first add-on for virtualizing a desktop machine
  approx. 20 VM server
  approx. 10 desktop VM
  My questions:
  for the vCenter, I thought to use vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) which can be used up to 5 host and VM 50,
  but for the View Manager manage the office machine, what should I use?
  There is also a View Manager device?
  Or I need to install it on a separate Windows 2008 Server?
  Need to be a member of the Windows domain?
  And for the VMware Secure Gateway ?
  There is a device or must be installed on a separate Windows 2008 Server?
  When he used the vCSA, you must have a domain on the network controller?
  Thanks for your reply guys

  No.... the vCenter and view managed use 'ADAM' which is AD in user mode and is not compatible with an AD domain controller.

  You need at least 3 Server Wiindows (DC 1 AD + DNS + DHCP, 1 vCenter + music, 1 View Manager)

• Cluster with VSphere Essentials

  When I try to create a cluster with VSphere Essentials (no more) I'm offered HA and DRS (they are not greyed out, they are available). Are these trial versions that will be disabled in the future, or they are now included in Essentials?

  My understanding is that they would be unavailable at all. that is, they would be gray.

  To view your features under license:

  1. Open the vSphere Client and connect to your vCenter Server
  2. Select a host in your cluster
  3. Click the Configuration tab
  4. Click on the link "Features licensed" under the software

  All licensed features are presented here. Search for "VMware HA" and "VMware DRS" see if they are allowed.

  

• Windows licensing for vSphere Essentials all Linux virtual machines running

  We offer vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus of application virtualization on a company that currently has 4 servers that run multiple applications under CentOS. The two products are very good values, providing important functionality at a reasonable cost. Yet, society of the end-user has some resistance to the required cost of Windows Server licenses. There is no Windows servers on this network. Even a minimal vSphere Essentials requires usually 3 Windows Server licenses (for the domain controller, vCenter server, and database server) and a SQL server license. Even when using standard licenses, the total cost of these is higher than the cost of the essential elements of vSphere. Other people deploying vSphere Essentials on Linux-oriented networks are finding ways to use a lower number of Windows Server licenses?

  vCenter Linux would be an alternative in such cases, but this project seems to be stalled.

  Thank you.

  Welcome to the community,

  If you're only going to do the virtualization of servers (not VMware View) the vCenter Server does not need to be a member of the domain, or you need a separate SQL Server for a small environment. The edition of SQL SERVER 2005 Express (included in the vCenter Server installation) is sufficient.

  While a single license of Windows (more CALs) would do.

  André

• VSphere essentials 8 cpu cores

  Hi all

  We recently have quote a customer to purchase vsphere essentials with a server that will run 2 processors 6 hearts of each.

  After a month, that the customer has accepted the quote if we order the server, but we noticed it came with 2 CPUs, 8 cores on each. We always evaluate vsphere esxi 4.1 and we haven't bought yet most of license. The reason to upgrade to vsphere essentials was to migrate 3-4 very old physical servers to this new server. No need to HA or vmotion is necessary. We needed an inexpensive way to get rid of these old servers.

  Can someone explain to us what will be the situation if buy us the essentials license and insert it on vsphere? Esxi 4.1 vsphere will continue to operate with limited cpu core feature or it will prevent all our VMs to stop working?

  Thank you

  I can't answer your question with certainty, and I think the only one who can is VMware itself.

  My guess is that it can work, but you're probably violating the EULA.

  What I actually wanted to mention are the fact that some harware like HP providers offer a known BIOS setting 'disable Core processor'. This feature allows to disable some carrots.

  of http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01905798/c01905798.pdf

  When to turn off the processor cores

  While disabling the carrots may seem paradoxical to provide superior performance, there are at least three situations in which the disabling processor cores may be beneficial.

  -Use of power reduction. Disabling the processor cores reduces processor power consumption. If a server is used in an environment that is not heavily dependent on multithreading hearts, by disabling the can reduce energy consumption without significantly affecting performance.

  -Increase overall performance. Some applications take advantage of higher frequency of basis rather than extra processing cores. When Turbo Mode is activated for processors Intel Nehalem, savings on electricity and heat produced by disabling the processor cores allows the remaining sons operate at a higher frequency than their rated speed. In the specific application environments, this could actually increase the overall performance of the system.

  -Meet the licensing issues. Some software are permitted on a basis of by heart. Deactivation of the cores allows an administrator to match the number of active cores on a server with licensing requirements. However, some software that is allowed on a per-core basis may not recognize the deactivation of carrots.

  André

• VMware vsphere essentials more and Dell MD3000i iSCSI - virtual disk not on preferred path

  Hello world

  I am trying to set up our new vmware vsphere essentials plus the facility. We have 2 x Dell R710 servers running vmware esx4 and have a md3000i SAN.

  Each server has a network cable to connect to a network SAN controller.

  vmserver1 a vmnic6 IP 192.168.130.110 the IP controller connection 0 192.168.130.101

  vmserver1 has IP 192.168.130.111 vmnic4 connection to controller 1 IP 192.168.130.102

  vmserver2 a vmnic 6 IP 192.168.131.110 the IP controller connection 0 192.168.131.101

  vmserver2 has IP 192.168.131.111 vmnic4 connection to controller 1 IP 192.168.131.102

  Whenever I start a virtual server it causes the dell md3000i start flashes orange, and management tool says disc not on favorite virtual path.

  After entering the tool configuration and affecting the path preferred, from the commencement to vmware, even with a single connected server it causes the error.

  I tried to configure vmware to use direct fixed and alternate paths.

  I did a quick search on Google and found these sites:

  http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/VMware ESX4.0andPowerVault MD3000i

  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/storage/f/1216/t/19269507.aspx

  Strange configuration.

  Looks like you are using some cross cable?

  Each host must have 2 vSwitches, each with a port vmkernel on one of the two iSCSI network.

  Each host must reach all 4 of the MD3000i (test with the vmkping command) interface.

  See also:

  http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/VMware ESX4.0andPowerVault MD3000i

  André

• vSphere Essentials 4 key on ESXi3?

  Hi all

  I wanted to contact VMWare sales on this subject, but when I choose this option I had to fill out a form with personal data and he wasn't any room to ask a question...

  So, I'll try it here instead:

  I am currently using VMWare ESXi 3 servers (free version).

  I want to go buy VeeAm backup to go with that, but VeeAm support more free ESXi from VMWare changed their license conditions.

  No backup program must support VMWare ESXi free edition longer.

  So, there are 3 licenses of VMWare ESX or ESXi, VMWare vSphere Essentials and several other options.

  It's price just below $ 1,000 is really affordable.

  However, if I were to buy this package, I guess I'll get the license keys to enter ESXi.

  Enter these keys in ESXi 3.5, I already use?

  I really don't want to move these machines to 4.0: if it's not broken, don't fix it.

  And another question: we buy our servers with pre-installed ESXi. New servers will have 4.0 installed. Can I use these Essentials license keys in these pre-installed versions of ESXi as well?

  Thanks for any help!

  Edit: both pis... Seen this

  > Note: the downgrade option is not available with ESXi 4 single server, vSphere 4 Essentials and Essentials of vSphere 4 (more). Only whole orders can be retired.

  Post edited by: Troy Clavell:

• VSphere Essentials Plus Kit vs Standard

  All the

  I need help to make a decision here.  The environment is both physical server (2 CPU each) and they run out of a small local SAN.  I was going to get Essentials more but the problem is that it is around $ 5500 per server physical and that is almost as expensive as the server.  I'm looking for alternatives and I fell on VSphere Standard edition.  Although Essentials Plus has all the Bell and whistle I am looking for, but we can live with HA and vMotion.  The truth is that I can live with 15 minutes of downtime, I just need to know if I should get VSphere Standard edition or even Essentials that I have the opportunity to make a VM if I experience hardware failure?  Thank you in advance.

  Welcome to the community,

  vSphere Essentials Plus Kit comes with a license for an instance of vCenter Server Essentials and 6 CPU license for up to 3 guests with up to 2 processors each. No need to buy a Kit by server.

  André

• Newbie question: ESXi 6.0 free vs vSphere Essentials Kit

  I currently have a server host running ESXi 5.5 (free version), accommodation mainly a lab with SQL servers and workstations Windows infrastructure.

  I plan to upgrade the vSphere Essentials Kit and I was wondering what are the additional benefits I would get paid Kit essentials ESXi free 6.0 vs.

  So far, I can think of the following:

  -Possibility to install on two additional host servers (however I don't really have this requirement for the moment)

  -Compatibility with VMWare as ALTARO and VEEAM backup software. (This would be beneficial)

  What are the other benefits Essentials Kit would offer a server environment unique host which would be sufficiently attractive to force one to go compared to the free version?

  Thank you for any comments.

  ArnieC

  Another great advantage will be the Server vCenter which adds lots of features and will help you manage all three hosts. Have a look here some of the additional benefits: http://www.vladan.fr/esxi-free-vs-paid/