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downloading vcenter in evaluation mode
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I want to download vcenter and practice the features of vcenter on my laptop.with the evaluated license,are you only restricted to one instance of the esxi host within vcenter as i know the license where you buy vcenter/esxi support a socket count. the free version of esxi cannot be integrated within vcenter,i have been informed, is there a work around for this?
I want to download vcenter and practice the features of vcenter on my laptop.with the evaluated license,are you only restricted to one instance of the esxi host within vcenter as i know the license where you buy vcenter/esxi support a socket count. the free version of esxi cannot be integrated within vcenter,i have been informed, is there a work around for this?
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so if i was to downlaod vcenter and the free version of esxi, i would have two hosts running and can carry out vmotion etc without any issues so?
Correct, If you have supporting Hardware & Setup including shared backend storage etc. All features inculding the vMotion Features are enabled in the vSphere EVAL package.
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esxi free cannot be integrated with vcenter as it does now comw with the vcenter management agent
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/small_business_editions_comparison.html
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/small_business_editions_comparison.html
Actually - there are no licensing limit on the evaluation version. The ESXi licensed as a "free" version can be added to vCenter Server - when you add it select the evaluation license and you will have 7 days to use it with vCenter server. Alternatively, you can re-install ESXi (say to a USB key) and have a 60 day eval period - just like vCenter server.
Hope this helps
Hope this helps
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Adding it to a vSphere server (vCenter as it used to be called) will give it additional features. I have the Eval copy of vSphere working with the default 'Free' ESXi key from VMware. I only have 3 boxes setup like this so i dont know the limit. But as far as i was aware the EVAL licence has NO limits apart from 60 days. It has all the features enabled of the TOP package so you can try it.