Re: vCenter 5.10b with ESXi 5.1 Update 1
Personally I would upgrade vCenter first - it is at the heart of the environment but if you do decide to upgrade your hosts first you will still be able to manage with the vCenter environment.
View ArticleVMware Vsphere License
Hi all Last year on mid , we have purchased VMware License for following products i) vCenter Server 5 Standard 1 instanceii) VMware Vsphere 5 Enterprise ( unlimited cores with 6 CPUs ) So my...
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The license you purchased does n't expire and you can use it as long as you want. What expires is the Support&Subscription contract. I'd recommend you contact your reseller and ask for renewal of...
View ArticleNeed to use existing license for 5.1 install
We bought licensing for 3 hosts -- 6 physical CPUs total -- prior to 5.x release. We built 2 hosts and installed a vSphere 4 Essentials license on each. We just got a new, 3rd host, after 5.x came...
View ArticleIs Single Sign On required in a small deployment?
I'm reading through everything to upgrade my vCenter from 4.1 to 5.1. I use a single VM for my vCenter Server, and currently the local administrator to login to it with vSphere Client. Stupid question...
View ArticleRe: Need to use existing license for 5.1 install
If your license is under SnS you will be able to update the license - The best route would be to update vCenter first because you will need to do that to be able to manage the ESXi 5.1 host -
View ArticleInconsistent DAS performance ESXi 5.1
I am trying to set up a series of performance tests to run on 4 vms on a single host. Using various settings I have been able to get CPU and RAM to perform consistently across all vms, but not disk....
View ArticleRe: Can't ping ESXi host after upgrade to ESXi 5.1
Old thread. But i had this issue after doing an update to U1 of 5.1. Turned out my vmnics were renumbered, we have 2x 10GBe and 2x 1GBe. It swapped the numbers around. a quick edit of the...
View ArticleTime of upgrade relative to SQL Server database size?
How long does the upgrade sequence of vCenter (from 4.1 U2 which ours is) to 5.1 U1 take where any needed database changes/modifications are concerned, relative to SIZE of the database? Or put another...
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Re: Need to use existing license for 5.1 install
Mine is "Subscription Only." When I view my License Keys I see this: My "Support Contract Details says this: These two screenshots are directly from my my.vmware.com I read else where on the forums...
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Re: Is Single Sign On required in a small deployment?
You need to install both. SSO is required, and you only can administrate SSO from Web Client. dead end
View ArticleRe: ESX 5.1 using Emulex FCoE, no storage adapter found
Hi, What kind of Emulex Adapter you have ? Default personality is NIC only. You can use "OneCommand Manager" from Emulex. There is a vCenter Plug-in you can install, and you also have to install the...
View ArticleRe: Need to use existing license for 5.1 install
Can someone please shed some light on this. I need a key for 5.1 vSphere which we clearly own I thought. Do I upgrade my 4.x key or do I need to some how request or generate a separate 5.1 key? I...
View ArticleRe: Installing vCenter Server 5.1 fails on Registering with vCenter Single...
Specify admin@system-domain for the field 'vCenter Server administrator recognized by vCenter Single Sign-On' during vCenter Server Installation to get ride of the 'wrong input....' error.By default...
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Re: Need to use existing license for 5.1 install
I'm posting this reply in hopes it will help someone else. Why support never could verify my license over 2 days I have no clue, but they could not, and kept asking me to resend it (I even sent...
View ArticleSteps for changing network addresses of the cluster
Hi, we have 4.1U3 Essentials Kit Plus with 1vCenter+3 ESXi hosts. We are planning to change IP addresses of these 4 hosts. What would you recommend as further steps. My plan is: 1) Turn off Vmware HA...
View ArticleRe: Steps for changing network addresses of the cluster
You don t need to migrate your VMs off the ESX servers at all. You can change the ESX IP address on the fly - just remove it from the vCenter, change IP and add it back again. I would do the following:...
View ArticleMoving VMs from VMFS3 to VMFS5 with local storage
Reading this: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/429617?start=0&tstart=0 It sounds like the best plan to go to 5.1 and VMFS5 is to not upgrade datastores from VMFS3, but to delete them and create...
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Re: vCenter 5 upgrade fails with "The wizard was interrupted"
Im having the same issue. But all i got from the logs was: CustomAction VM_Start Tomcat Immediate returned actual error code 1603.I tried deleting all from %TEMP%, and created a whole dedicated vmware...
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