vSphere license without vCenter Server Standard

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  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

• Move a virtual machine from one host to another without vCenter Server

  Hi all

  Something's been recently who raised the question on moving a virtual machine between hosts without vCenter.  I am running vSphere manage 3 blades in a c3000.  I have a shared storage iSCSI blade which all the blades connect to.  All of my virtual machines are in the same data store on the shared storage.  I'm also under vCenter Server as a virtual machine on one of the blades.  The blade that hosts the vCenter Server VM dead recently. What I was hoping to do is use vSphere Client to connect directly to one of the other blades and hover over the vCenter Server VM to one of the blades of the good, but I can't find a way to do this.  Using the browser of data store and see all of the virtual machine on the store of data without problem, but I see no way to migrate the virtual machine without vCenter server.  In the end, the blade has only had a problem of memory I corrected and managed to raise the blade but I now think of the future.  I use only Essentials, so I don't have access to vMotion and Storage vMotion.  I know that running vCenter Server is supported by Vmware, but I wonder if it's the best practices.

  Any thoughts?

  Hi, I assume that you get this error because the machine is running, try to connect directly to the host and do the same with an engine off the machine.

• The host is licensed with VMware vSphere 5 Standard. The license of vCenter Server edition doesn't support VMware vSphere 5 Standard.

  So I disconnected a host to vcenter server and now I get this error message when I try to reconnect to this host.  The host has been previously connected without any problem.  Vcenter servers as esxi are 5.5.0.  Anyone had any experience with this?

  Thank you.

  Unfortunately, I can't tell you for sure why it worked previously. Maybe it worked with an earlier version, or hosts have been added while vCenter Server was still running in trial mode. Anyway, if you have a license of Essentials for vCenter Server, you must also license processors Essentials the Essentials version is sold as a kit.

  André

• vSphere Enterprise license with vCenter 5 Standard edition 5

  Guys quick question

  can I add a vSphere Enterprise 5 (or more) allowed a couple of new hosts (especially need FT and DRS) in conjunction with vSphere standard licenses already in service (and you want to keep) under a vCenter Standard edition 5?

  Thank you

  I don't see a problem with running differently licensed hosts on one instance of vCenter server. Due to different features, you will need to place them in separate well groups. With respect to the vRAM, I understand how it vRAM is pooled by license type, then you will end up with two swimming pools.

  André

• VCenter Server (standard) useful with ESXi is free?

  Trying to decide what, if anything, to actually buy VMware.  The free ESXi product license is... enough.  I would really like to central management, backup or read/write capabilities with rcli (piracy without installation - I think I said that correctly).

  My question is this.  There is a VERY big jump in $$$ of the products beforehand essentials range or better (I think that the Standard line is unnecessary).  I currently have 5 VMware servers (2 under Server Linux 2.0 on server newish hardware, each, 2 ESXi 4 server about 4 VM running on old jobs as each House a unique VM (due to higher disk IO) and ESXi 3.5 server running on 32-bit with 1 VM hardware).

  In any case - with a mixture of mission critical production VM and VM little criticism that don't necessary not to live on a San and puff SAN bandwidth, I'm not sure I want to limit myself to 3 physical machines.  It would be probably enough for the next 5 to 10 years, but it would affect my SAN strategies and I have to buy at least 1 or 2 new costly servers.

  So I thought that maybe just get the vCenter Server for centralized management would work.  I always have 2 or 3 more enjoyable new servers ESXi 4 on the San with mission critical servers, while continuing to have 2-3 of older machines with individual local readers VM (I like to keep virtual for purposes of disaster recovery for) running.

  I can't find any information on knowledge if it would work, and it would offer benefits etc..

  You cannot add free ESXi to vCenter. Adding a host requires the inside the host vCenter Agent license.

  Sorry about that.

  Marcelo Soares

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• VSphere from VMware vCenter Server Web Access from the Internet

  I tested VMware vSphere (ESX 4) and tried to connect to the internet for the Web Admin Access VM only.  I can connect the vCenter Server (on Windows) http Web Access features and manage the configuration of all virtual machines. But when I try to connect to an actual vm via MKS, I get an error MKS as ' unable to connect to the MKS: unable to connect to the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:902 server.»  The xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the ESX Server HOST and not the Server vCenter (which administers the host).   I have ports 80, 443, 902 and 903, on the firewall, open to point to the server vCenter Server.  When I'm on the LAN, I can do everything without a problem. Its only when I try to connect directly from the internet through our firewall I get the above error.

  Someone at - it suggestions?

  Andrej770,

  vCenter Server transfers you to the ESX host hosting the virtual machine, and the remote console runs on port 902.

  You want to go directly to the ESX host on port 902 through the firewall to connect to the Virtual Machine console.

  You want to see the pages "Guide de Configuration ESX" 146 for more information.

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vSphere4/R40/vsp_40_esx_server_config.PDF

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• License with vCenter server 6.0 problem

  I installed vCenter server 6.0 by using VMware-VCSA-all - 6.0.0 - 2414224.iso. I am able customer web connection vCenter and also able to see registered vCenter server. However, when you try to add the new host of the vCenter, it throws the error "license not available to perform the operation. By default, vmware offers trial license 60 days but I can not see the mode of trial license in the license tab.

  VCenter server 6.0 does a trial license 60 days? Please kindly let me know where I can get more information on vCenter server 6.0.

  Hello

  vCenter 6 not yet GA, I assume that you have installed the beta binaries.

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  I suggest to wait until date of GA and download the binaries then real.

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• VMware vCenter Server Standard and editions of the Foundation

  I was wondering if someone could give advice on the differences between these two products, my understanding of the difference, is that the latter allows to order more than 3 guests. I wanted to really know was that (cool) features as rebilling and extended control applications that they appear in both versions or did I miss something...

  Thank you

  Hello

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• Can of POS used with Vmware vCenter Server 5 Standard license

  Hello team,

  Accroding to http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 2016565

  WTP is supplied with vSphere Essentials more and more.

  I searched but did not meet solid information where he explains when licensed some don't need us to buy additional licenses for new features / applications, etc.
  I'm new to Vmware licenses hierarchy. We have Vmware vCenter Server Standard 5 license.
  Please point me to a URL that contains the hierarchy of Vmware licenses .

  Thank you much in advance.
  Niraj

  You can use vCenter Server Standard 5 licenses for POS. Everything we have features such as (profile of HA, DRS, FT, VDP, host, DVS etc.) you don't need to worry about the virtual server license Center. You must use the correct license vsphere host. But don't forget to think about some virtual server edition Center can handle some vsphere hosts.

  vCenter server 5 Essentials can manage only vSphere Essentials Plus or vSphere Essentials.

  vCenter Server Standard 5 licensecan eat only vSphere vSphere Enterprise and vSphere companies plus standards.

  You can activate the functionality of POS with vSphere Essentials Plus then you will need to use vCenter server 5 Essentials.If you use vCenter server standard for vSphere Essentials Plus so it give error or warning for violation of editing.

  Thank you

  Atul

• VCB backup without vCenter vSphere 4.0 Standard

  Is it possible to make a backup of the VCB without vCenter in the following situation:

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  -Server Proxy VCB (with Veeam Backup and replication)

  Or do I absolutely vCenter?

  Should I also ESX ESXi has no service console?

  Any help is greatly appreciated.

  Hello royml, thank you very much for your interest.

  1. Yes, with Veeam Backup, you can perform backups of your virtual machines without vCenter server present VCB - today, it is available in the current version of Veeam Backup. The same is true for the vStorage API based backups (API vStorage for Data Protection is the successor VCB, we fully support this mode backup in our forthcoming v4).

  2. Yes, it can be ESXi - no problem here, with Veeam Backup by using the agent console service is not necessary.

  Do not hesitate to download VMware and Veeam Backup test and try it - takes 5 minutes to deploy Veeam Backup and start your first job

  If you have any product-specific questions - we will be happy to help you on the Veeam community forums.

• Compatibility of VMware vCenter Server 4 Foundation to vSphere with ESX 3 Standard VI

  We are already use VMware ESX Server 3.5 VI.

  Our intention is to buy VMware vCenter Server 4 Foundation for vSphere addition VI ESX 3.5 Server running on a separate server. Our concern is;

  1. is VMware vCenter Server 4 Foundation for backward compatible product vSphere with VMware ESX Server 3.5?

  2 If no, then is it a similar product of VMware, which is compatible with VMware ESX Server 3.5?

  Please notify.

  VMware vCenter Server Foundation 4.0 can handle up to 3 vSphere or legacy hosts.  If you need to manage more than 3 guests, you should definitely consider vCenter Server Standard edition.

  ESG-VMware

  VMware communities user moderator

• VCenter Server licenses

  Hello

  I need assistance with licensing Vmware. We have about 50 guests in our infrastructure. I would like to manage them all under a Vcenter Server. These are individual hosts so we do not use some advanced features such as HA and FT, vMotion, DRS etc. At present we have license of vSphere Essentials 5 for vSphere and vCenter Server 5 license for Vcenter Essentials.

  Can someone tell me which can satisfy the above requirement?

  Hi and welcome to communities,

  you need 1 vCenter Server Standard license, which allows you to manage up to 1000 guests.

  For your ESXi hosts, you will need Standard license or superior (Enterprise, Enterprise PLUS)

  You can compare the editions of license here: http://www.vmware.com/de/products/vsphere/compare

  But since you do not use the cool features (you should) Standard license for the guests will be the cheapest.

  Tim

• Different vSphere in 1 vCenter license

  1. we have the following items purchased for our next project.

  vSphere with operation management standard for 1 CPU x 6 (3 guests)

  vSphere with operation management company for 1 CPU x 6 (3 guests)

  standard server for vSphere vCenter 5 1 5 x

  2. my question is 2 different vSphere license can be managed under single vCenter Server?

  or we should purchase another license of vCenter server?

  Thank you.

  Hi and welcome to communities,

  You can manage all these licences in the same server vCenter Server.

  You could even mix the hosts with different licenses in the same cluster (you can use the functions that are known but on all hosts in the cluster).

  Tim

• vCenter Server 5.5 compatibility with vSphere 4 hypervisor

  I recently installed vCenter Server 5.5.0.5201 (with a Standard license valid vCenter) and I am trying to add the hosts to vCenter data center. I can connect successfully to the host but vSphere displays the following error:

  "The host is licensed with vSphere 4 hypervisor. The license of vCenter Server edition doesn't support vSphere 4 hypervisor. »

  Now I found the slot compatibility matrix and there clearly shows that vCenter 5.5 is compatible with all the way back to version 4 for ESXi. I must be missing something, can someone please clarify the question.

  

  I know that vSphere hypervisor and ESXi Server is essentially the same but vSphere hypervisor is the free version, so is there a difference that I know?

  This happens because you are using a free license on the ESXi 4.1 key.

  "The host is licensed with vSphere 4 hypervisor" means that it is a free ESXi. You will not be able to manage the free ESXi with vCenter.