JoelC707Premium
join:2002-07-09
Stone Mountain, GA
kudos:5 | Re: HW Verify: ESXi at home... At the end of those 60 days you either load in that free license you got when you signed up or you pay for one of the higher tier packages. You're free to install that free license as soon as you complete the ESXi install if you like, nothing says you have to wait the 60 days to install it unless you want to test out the full feature set. |
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| said by JoelC707:At the end of those 60 days you either load in that free license you got when you signed up or you pay for one of the higher tier packages. You're free to install that free license as soon as you complete the ESXi install if you like, nothing says you have to wait the 60 days to install it unless you want to test out the full feature set.
right.
but i was quoted regarding my question about vsphere 69 day trial, not esxi (the limited version that is free with the license). |
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AsherN
join:2010-08-23
Thornhill, ON | said by tomdlgns:said by JoelC707:At the end of those 60 days you either load in that free license you got when you signed up or you pay for one of the higher tier packages. You're free to install that free license as soon as you complete the ESXi install if you like, nothing says you have to wait the 60 days to install it unless you want to test out the full feature set.
right. but i was quoted regarding my question about vsphere 69 day trial, not esxi (the limited version that is free with the license). At the end of the trial, it needs to be licensed. Can be the free license. |
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| got it, maybe i am still missing something. there is esxi and vsphere.
esxi- 60 days full features, after 60 days, type in free license, which gives you esxi limited, forever.
vsphere- additional options, good for 60 days...after that, you would pay for it if you want to continue using it.
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AsherN
join:2010-08-23
Thornhill, ON | said by tomdlgns:got it, maybe i am still missing something. there is esxi and vsphere.
esxi- 60 days full features, after 60 days, type in free license, which gives you esxi limited, forever.
vsphere- additional options, good for 60 days...after that, you would pay for it if you want to continue using it.
correct?
No. It's sometimes mind warping.
ESXi is the name of the hypervisor. It's what you load on the host. And from the host you can't really do anything with it.
From the host you can download a client used to control. That client is the basis for vSphere. If you don't license the client, all features are active for 60 days. Once you apply a license, the client only shows you the features enabled for that host. One of those licenses is free. It will not let you apply to a host that has more than 32GB RAM and 2 CPU. |
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| ok, i get what you are saying, maybe i didnt explain/type it out properly.
the last explanation makes sense.
thanks. |
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 aa2k
join:2000-10-06
Damascus, MD | 
Web GUI |
With that IP address open a browser from another computer, appoint it to the IP address and get to the We GUI interface, you can download the client directly from there (it will download directly from VMWare.com, this is just a quick link to it), and some other stuff... see attached. |
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 DarkLogixTexan and ProudPremium
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
kudos:3 | I suggest saving the client exe to somewhere incase your internet isn't great and/or you have other computers to use to admin the host from.
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said by aa2k:You dont need to download the client separately if you dont want, once you install ESXi (vsphere), at the end of the installation you will presented with an ip address and some other options.
With that IP address open a browser from another computer, appoint it to the IP address and get to the We GUI interface, you can download the client directly from there (it will download directly from VMWare.com, this is just a quick link to it), and some other stuff... see attached.
i have worked with vmware, but it was with a licensed copy that had everything. i just wanted to make sure i was understanding the trial stuff. |
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said by DarkLogix:I suggest saving the client exe to somewhere incase your internet isn't great and/or you have other computers to use to admin the host from.
good advice. i always make a folder with sites, user names, part of the password, make notes if it is something i think i might forget, certain files, etc...
good to have in a jam. |
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DarkLogixTexan and ProudPremium
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
kudos:3 | Ya if your internet is ever down (gasps) and you need to install the client on a new computer doing this comes in handy.
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 DrexBeer...The other white meat.Premium
join:2000-02-24
La Place, LA
kudos:1
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Or you reinstall everything and your 60 days starts over. At least in my experience that's what has happened.
Save your VM's off to your local PC, reinstall ESXi and vSphere, import your VMs back in. Yeah it sucks to have to do it every 60 days, but licensing VMware ain't cheap.
As for my "lab", I built 2 systems from scratch:
2 x ASUS M4A78LT-M AM3 AMD 760G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
4 x G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model
2 x AMD Athlon II X4 620 Propus 2.6GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Processor ADX620WFGIBOX
Each system has a 500GB internal drive. I have a Synology NAS with two 500GB drives in RAID 0 that are connected via iSCSI to my ESXi hosts. For the most part it gets the job done. The CPUs are a bit outdated (about 3 years old), but processing power isn't that big a deal.
To summarize each host has a quad core AMD Athlon II X4 & 16GB's of ram. Each host also has no less than 3 Intel Gigabit NICs. I wanted the ability to play around with failover and such.
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| said by Drex:Or you reinstall everything and your 60 days starts over. At least in my experience that's what has happened.
Save your VM's off to your local PC, reinstall ESXi and vSphere, import your VMs back in. Yeah it sucks to have to do it every 60 days, but licensing VMware ain't cheap.
but if i dont care about HA and some other features, i can continue to use the free, limited system, correct? |
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DarkLogixTexan and ProudPremium
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
kudos:3 | said by tomdlgns:said by Drex:Or you reinstall everything and your 60 days starts over. At least in my experience that's what has happened.
Save your VM's off to your local PC, reinstall ESXi and vSphere, import your VMs back in. Yeah it sucks to have to do it every 60 days, but licensing VMware ain't cheap.
but if i dont care about HA and some other features, i can continue to use the free, limited system, correct? Yes
I have 2 production 5.1 hosts running like this.
They're just DL380's (one G5 and one g6) you only need the paid key for the cool features.
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 fcislerPremium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY | reply to batsona
Always consult the VMWare HCL itself:
»www.vmware.com/resources/compati···arch.php
This will get you version specific info (unlike that link for 4.0 only) |
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mikefxu
join:2004-10-05
Titusville, FL | reply to batsona
I have run ESXi 4.1 on a Vostro 200 after adding an HCL approved Intel NIC. |
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said by DarkLogix:I suggest saving the client exe to somewhere incase your internet isn't great and/or you have other computers to use to admin the host from.
yeah, another reason for this is that it appears to be a throttled download. downloading at ~200kb right now.
yup, save the exe. |
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DarkLogixTexan and ProudPremium
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
kudos:3 | I much preferred the way it was done is esxi 3.5 (the client was actually on the host for download)
But now its always on vmware's site, so each time you do an update that brings a new version of the client you'll have to download it again.
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having trouble getting vcenter.
i have 54 days left and i have not put in the free limited license. all this time i thought it was called vcenter, but i cant seem to find what i think is the vcenter i need.
i am looking to setup clustering.
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 exocet_cmI am the law - Judge DreddPremium
join:2003-03-23
New Orleans, LA
kudos:2
1 edit | said by tomdlgns:having trouble getting vcenter.
i have 54 days left and i have not put in the free limited license. all this time i thought it was called vcenter, but i cant seem to find what i think is the vcenter i need.
i am looking to setup clustering.
thanks
Alright, so you are running ESXi on some some server, correct, and can connect to it using a vSphere client?
To cluster multiple ESXi machines with a non-free license (as in after 60 days clustering won't work), you'll need vCenter. You should be able to download it here: »my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details···-510B-EN
You're going to want 5.1.0b. You can run vCenter within a VM on your ESXi machine if you want then connect your ESXi box to your vCenter server (the attached pic is not from my vCenter login otherwise you'd see datacenters, etc).
Follow this guide to set it up (I'm on my third vCenter install and I like using this guide. It takes me about an entire day, almost two days to complete because I like to manually type out commands as opposed to scripting stuff).
»derek858.blogspot.com/2012/09/vm···t-1.html
If, for some reason, you can't download from that link send me a PM.
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