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sammyc53
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‎08-21-2008 08:44 AM

ESX 3.5 Demo/Trail in Disaster Recovery?

I have a ESXi box, with about 5 production guests. I have a few old Dell 2650's (Not on the HCL for ESXi) that I could use as a fail over machines at a remote site. (No SAN's, just via backups).

Can I use the 60 day Trail of ESX to have a place to put my production VMs in case my ESXi fails?

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weinstein5
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‎08-21-2008 08:49 AM

You can but I will bet that will violate the EULA -

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sammyc53
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‎08-21-2008 08:51 AM

You 'bet' or you 'know'?

I read the EULA, doesn't mention limitations of what you can use the Trail for. Does mention that I would NOT receive any support from VMware though, which is fine.

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Ken_Cline
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‎08-21-2008 09:04 AM

If your DR site is all stand-alone machines, why not just use the free ESXi product? The only down-side is that you would not be able to use VirtualCenter to manage them, but you would certainly be license compliant.

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sammyc53
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‎08-21-2008 09:07 AM

Becasue the servers at my DR site are not on the HCL for ESXi...

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weinstein5
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‎08-21-2008 09:32 AM

'bet' - previous eula I have seen for trail software limits its use only for test/proof of concept - so if it is not in eula you might be ok - but remember if you do power up the license that will start the timer on you 60 days - so you really will not be able to test - I agree with ken's seggestion about ESXi -and in regards to the HCL you would have the same problem with running ESXi in trial mode -

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sammyc53
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‎08-21-2008 09:36 AM

Thanks guys.

FYI. I never mentioned running "ESXi in trial mode" Just ESX. Does ESXi Trials even exist? It's free.

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weinstein5
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‎08-21-2008 09:40 AM

I believe they do even though you can get ESXi for free now -

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Ken_Cline
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‎08-21-2008 11:34 AM 

Becasue the servers at my DR site are not on the HCL for ESXi...
I guess it would help if I actually read your original post, wouldn't it!
Ken Cline
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