VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Bundle

[Oli_L]

I have a question regarding an offer VMware have on at the moment for VMware vSphere 4 Essential Bundle. My question is around the statement where it says you can virtualize three physical servers

Does this mean you can virtualise up to 3 ESX hosts each with 2 sockets each, running as many virtual guests as you want/can?

Thanks in advance

Oli

This is the offer below.

vmware offer

VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Bundle provides an all-in-one solution for small

offices to virtualize three physical servers for consolidating and managing

applications to reduce hardware and operating costs with a low up front

investment.

With the vSphere 4 Essentials Bundle, you can:

• Reduce server capital costs by over 50%

• Cut the deployment time of new servers from weeks to hours

• Centrally monitor and control servers and virtual machines from a single pane of glass

• Automate operations to improve IT responsiveness

VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Bundle includes:

• 3 licenses of VMware ESXi and VMware ESX (deployment-time choice)

• VMFS (Virtual Machine File System)

• 4-way Virtual SMP

• VMware vCenter Server Agent

• VMware vStorage APIs / VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)

• VMware Update Manager

• VMware vCenter Server for Essentials

[illvilja · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes, it means you can have 3 ESX(i) servers, and in "theory" have as many VM's as you'd like. (Not regarding maxiumum configuration limits).

VCP3/4

[weinstein5]

As the the other poster said it means you can manage three ESX(i) servers and does not limit the number of VMs you can run- what limits them are the maximumx as well as the resources that your ESX(i) present -

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[alistairc]

I have a question relating to this (let me know if I should create a new topic to cover it) - if you have the free version of ESXi 4U1 installed on a host, and then purchase Essentials bundle (which ties you to 3 ESXis to 1 VC); can you simply put a new license file into the free ESXi to make it part of the Essentials Bundle, or do you have to totally ESXi reinstall using a specific vSphere Essentials ESXi installer binary? I presume if you have to totally reinstall ESXi, you can do so without modifying your datastores?

Thanks,

Alistair

[weinstein5]

You simply replace the license - no need to reinstal

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On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:05 AM, alistairc <communities-

[Oli_L]

Thanks for your answers. I think VMware have worded this badly when they talk of virtualising three physical hosts. Really it would be clearer if they say running ESX on 3 physical hosts.. and you always have to be cautious of the fine print when you see offers like this.

Although I reckon this is a pretty good offer.