ESX4 != ESX4i / features / upgrade

[RaphaelK2011101]

Hello guys,

I have installed 3 ESX4.1i Hosts. Fews weeks ago, I purchased licence for Vcenter and Vsphere (essential pack). I entered these licence on the 3 hosts ; everything runs fine. But as I tryed to make some scripting / package installation, I noticed that some functionnality was missing on the console shell. I dummy thought that these functionnality would be available by using a "proper" licence code.

So now, it is possible to upgrade from ESX4i to ESX 4?

Where can I download the ESX4 version ? the VMware dld site is not so clear ... ?

Thx !

regards,

RK.

[MauroBonder · Accepted solution]

to do this upgrade you need reinstall your host .

what do you need ESX, and not ESX(i), in next version of VMware (Vsphere 5.0) will have only version ESX(i). You maybe will have a problem to upgrade ESX4.0 to ESX(i) 5.0.

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx41u1/ZHcqYnRlQHBiZGhwZA== follow link ESX4.1 Update 1

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[Troy_Clavell]

there are no upgrade paths from ESXi to ESX or vice versa, you will need to do a re-install.  With that said, with a paid version you can script via the vCLI, vMA, or PowerCLI

Download for ESX4.x is below

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_4/4_0

[vmroyale]

Hello.

Exactly what scripting/package installation are you trying to accomplish?  Maybe we can help you here.  You would be better off in the long run, if you could use ESXi now, as ESX is not going to be around in the next release of the product.

As far as changing to ESX goes, you would need to do a fresh install.

Good Luck!

[MauroBonder]

you can use VIMA to manage all hosts http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vima/ or  see if apply for you powercli

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/index.html

PowerCli "VMware vSphere PowerCLI provides a Windows PowerShell interface to the vSphere API. vSphere PowerCLI includes  PowerShell Cmdlets (pronounced, “command-lets”) for administering vSphere components.  In addition, the vSphere PowerCLI package includes the vSphere SDK for .NET for developers who want to create  their own applications."

[RaphaelK2011101]

whoh !

You guys are "amazingly" quick  !

Thx all for your answers !

I will make a fresh installation of ESX, then migrate VM from ESXi to ESX.

regarding the package I want to install, it is the nagios nrpe client.

regards,

Raphael.

[LucasAlbers]

We monitor all of our esxi hosts using opsivew, you can get all the performance data using snmp traps and powercli as part of the service check.

You don't need a nrpe client.

It has service_checks forf esx/esxi hosts.

Opsview uses nagios to monitor esx/esxi, but sits on top of it to make it dramatically easier to configure.

The community version is free.

So for what you are trying to do, monitor with nagios, you can do with opsview and esxi.

[DSTAVERT]

Before you move to ESX do understand that this is the last version to include ESX classic. Going forward there will only be ESXi so at some point you will need to redo anything that relies on the ESX console.

[RaphaelK2011101]

Hum ok !

@DSTAVERT : I understand that the futur of ESX is the "i" release ; My new ESX is alive now ; I will be able to make some test on both version.

Lucas, thx for your feedback on opsview !

Raphael.