VSphere Essentials Install / Industrial Environment / Backups

[scnetworks1]

Hello,

Am looking for basic instructions on how to install VMWare VSphere Essentials on / for 3 Standalone, 6.5 licensed ESXI Servers (inherited production facility). Need backups of VM's - can't do this now, hoping Essentials will help.

I purchased the Essentials product yesterday and a 2.5 GIG download came down - not sure where to begin / how to install. Is there instructions / a video dedicated to this somewhere by chance? There is a separate Win 10 "Management PC" that taps into each ESXI via Firefox - maybe this installs onto said windows system?

Apologies to be so "green" but am pushed to get this installed by noon tomorrow - any help / advice is appreciated. The 3 ESXI servers are running 6.5.0 Build 8935087. If I can open support ticket with VMWare for support, wish to - but getting in touch with live people these days continues to get harder

Thank you very much in advance - 🙂

[fabio1975]

Ciao
One thing is not clear to me.
You now have ESXi 6.5 installed on 3 nodes and you have a vCenter. Right? Or don't you have the vcenter installed?
You bought the Essential license and would like to apply it on the three nodes and on the vcenter. Right?
I would say that you just need to upload the new license key to the vCenter and apply it to both the nodes and the vCenter.

[bryanvaneeden]

In addition to the other post before me, if you don't have a vCenter Server you can intall the licences on the ESXi hosts if you login through the ESXi Host Client -> Manage -> Licensing -> Assign license and paste the license there.

Hope this helps.